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====== Choose a Useful Task ======

Use this guide when you want a flight that improves the current shared world. The Live Map's **Sorties** panel is the fastest starting point because it ranks a small number of shortages and other needs by priority, grouped into Recon, Supply, Construction, Calibration and Armed.

  - Open **Sorties** and look for a recommendation with a clear cargo type and destination.
  - Choose a task your aircraft can carry and whose route fits the available flight time.
  - Inspect the source and confirm that the required cargo is staged or can be produced.
  - Inspect the destination and confirm that it accepts the cargo in its current state.
  - Check the route, weather, regional Security and time remaining before the next restart.
  - Prefer a critical shortage, commissioning requirement, expiring rumor, useful Project need or the source of regional unrest over filling already healthy storage.

**When Sorties does not show your route.** Hover known sites and trace cargo from a Source through any required Factory to the destination. A small crate delivered to a bottleneck is often more useful than a large load sent to comfortable stock. A sortie entry is a recommendation, not a restriction on any valid route.

===== Components Used =====

  * [[components:live-map|Live Map]]
  * [[components:aircraft|Aircraft]]
  * [[components:sources|Sources]]
  * [[components:factories|Factories]]
  * [[components:settlements|Settlements]]
  * [[components:security|Security]]
  * [[components:restarts|Restarts]]

===== Related Guides =====

  * [[guides:deliver-cargo|Deliver Cargo]]
  * [[guides:commission-site|Commission a Site]]
  * [[guides:map-a-rumor|Map a Rumor]]
  * [[guides:recover-settlement|Recover a Settlement]]