AI flight time to refuel

[Pyrocumulous]

I've only completed the first four missions, but so far, by the time the rest of my flight gets done with the tanker, it's already push time. For some reason the wingman takes forever to take on fuel, despite only needing a couple thousand pounds (internal, no external tanks). I timed fuel transfer time on Mission 4 and it took 7.5 minutes for Colt 1-2 from contact to disconnect, 1.5 minutes for Colt 1-3, 6.5 minutes for Colt 1-4 by which time we were already past push time so I do not have time to top off my jet. By comparison, testing with a mission where all four jets start with 5000 pounds of internal fuel and no external tanks, each takes about 45-50 seconds from contact to disconnect (4.5 minutes for all three AI jets to fuel and disconnect).

I'm giving flight the Hit the Tanker order pretty quickly after departing Nellis, and they aren't wasting any time getting to the Shell tanker or hooking up, just seems to take forever to fill once there. I'm a pretty incompetent with the F16 doing AAR, but even I can bobble around and get a couple thousand pounds in a couple of minutes. What's going wrong here?