Naval Air Bases - How do they work?

[thesovietonion]

Hi gents.

On my fourth or fifth game now, and I'm still confused on how naval air bases actually function. I have yet to have a single one of my expensive airbases launch a single sortie. My airship bases function perfectly fine, and have taken up the role of fleet eyes and ears since the current AV's in the demo are bugged and unable to launch seaplanes without a catapult. 

At game load, and before starting time I give all air bases a search pattern. Each air base has 8 flying boats. The same orders are mirrored to the nearby airship bases, but only they take off.

Bug? User error? Help me out, please!

[janxol]

It's a bug, I think it might have been fixed for the next build already.

[thesovietonion]

Wow, fast answer! I appreciate it.

Totally understanding of bugs, they happen. I was pulling my hair out thinking I was the problem haha.