No, not above the carrier, it says I am based at "Townsville airfield" which is I understand in Australia!? That's an off map airfield then.
I start mid air and the waypoints guide me over the target and then off the map. This is the Okinawa campaign, but other pacific maps I tested were the same (airstarts).
Then I used the squadron panel and set myself to be based onboard one of the carriers and the campaign continued normally from there.
I'm using SAS ModAct 5.3 but I tried to disable all the mods and the result was same, eg. unwanted airstart. I don't see how modact would be causing this, but if you think it is, then the problem lies with my modded game. It's not a big problem since it can be corrected with the squadron panel, but I wonder what's causing these airstarts? Am I missing something? What settings do I normally have to choose to start a campaign on a carrier?
The rest of the DCG works nicely except for a few minor quirks that I will mention in another post when I finish my current campaign.
Thanks for your help in advance.