[NEED TRACK REPLAY]B17s diving randomly

I have a formation of b17s flying in over Normandy. There are no enemies on the map yet. I set up the formation with the lead element and the follow 6 waypoints. They come in from the channel then when they hit the waypoint for the coming run they dive 3000 to 4000 feet and level out and conduct bombing run.

If I set the waypoints to 28000 feet they fly at 28000 and then dive to 25000 feet when they hit the bombing run waypoint.

If I set it to 25000 feet the bombers dive to 22000ish thousand feet when they hit the waypoint and level off.

To make it more of a head scratcher. If i set all waypoints to 21500 the bomber groups stay at 21500 feet for the entire time.

They only seem to dive from higher altitudes without instruction. At 215000 they work just fine. Anybody have any idea what is going on?

Two things you can try:

1. Make sure the formation's speed is at LEAST 290 kph

2. Under the bombing instruction, there is a check box for "altitude above". Make sure the value in that check box is the same as the way-point altitude

This might be related. See thread and attached miz/ trk files

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=282276