AI aircraft not taking off in bad weather?

I've been messing around with the mission editor setting up little scenarios for my own amusement and usually I can understand where I went wrong if something screws up.

But! I had a F-15C and F-15E set up to take off from parking, but rather than do that they just sat out the whole mission. On the Red base, two Mig-29A took off from parking no problem.

Thinking it might be something to do with my location on the base (in an A-10A) I moved my aircraft to a different base. No difference.

Maybe the weather? I had set up a dynamic weather system with 4 systems so the result was a decent crosswind and rain. Not too tricky to fly in.

To test whether that was an issue I set the weather to static and fine, so no rain or wind. Then the F-15s started to make their move.

So my question is does the weather make a difference? Should it? How do I know what the limits are if this is the case?

Note that neither F-15s were overloaded; they were at around 90%.

Thanks!

Post the mission file for us to check. Are you sure the time of start was right?

AI ATC will tell the player not to takeoff if weather (wind) is beyond certain limits. That might apply to AI as well.

Ah, that might be it. I'll post a mission file next time I have a poke around in the ME. Thanks.