Aircraft groups "go dumb" after respawnInZone() or teleportInZone()

[ColdFrontWI]

I am trying to randomize the spawn location of aircraft groups. I can make them spawn at a random location or move them to a random location after spawning (using respawnInZone() or teleportInZone(), respectively), but after this they "go dumb." They slowly descend to ~200' agl and eventually crash into the ground if there's a terrain rise. They don't follow flight plan, and don't engage.

The same groups work fine if I spawn them at their ME-specified starting point with respawnGroup(). Is there any fix or workaround for this?

Thanks!

[mrSkortch]

The respawn/clone/teleportInZone functions aren't really meant to be used with aircraft since it doesn't reassign or modify their route in anyway. Its relatively inconsequential to the route if they just started randomly in an area and then flew to exactly the same point. But push comes to shove you can use the same function that all of those functions use to do most of the work. You just have to populate some of the values that respawnInZone would have populated.

https://wiki.hoggitworld.com/view/MIST_teleportToPoint

Something like this should do the trick.

local rndPoint = mist.getRandomPointInZone('zoneName', radius)
mist.teleportToPoint({action = 'respawn', point = rndPoint, groupName = 'groupName',  route = mist.getGroupRoute('groupName', true) })