Diadem FC Party Question

[Culfinrandir]

There's something I've been trying to find out but without much success. If anyone can give a definitive answer I'd be most grateful.

If you start a party for Diadem using a FC airship that isn't on an Exploratory Mission (the ones it can be sent on for days at a time) does that airship become "locked" to the instance? I would like to use the airship for gathering parties in Party Finder but it's unlikely that I'd get more than 3 or 4 people. I don't want to use the FC airship if it prevents the other FC members from using it to go on full-team Diadem hunts for 2hrs.

Thanks. =}

[Nyghtmarerobu]

* Upon undertaking an exploratory mission, the airship used must wait twenty minutes from the time you began before it can be used for exploratory voyages.

Straight from the patch Notes.
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...c91d884c6b6a84

[Culfinrandir]

Straight from the patch Notes.
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...c91d884c6b6a84

I read that at the time but I'm still not sure if that refers to Diadem missions. It states that it must wait 20 minutes after a mission (to Diadem) before it can go on a voyage (to the islands - those take 50hrs or so) but there's no clear answer for Diadem Mission to Diadem Mission delays.

[ChiiSoSeriouz]

20 minutes.

* As a temporary countermeasure, the time the next airship exploratory mission will be available for the ship which was used to enter “The Diadem” from your Company Workshop’s Flight Control Panel has been changed from 20min to 5min.

The three issues above were resolved in the Emergency Maintenance which occurred from Nov. 16, 2015 10:00 p.m. to Nov. 17, 2015 12:45 a.m. (PST).

[Culfinrandir]

20 minutes.

Thanks. It seems that the translation of the 3.1 patch notes should have been referring to missions & not voyages. I assume that the longest time the FC will be without an airship is therefore 20mins rather than 2hrs. Hopefully that'll be acceptable to allow me to gather if others want to go hunting. =)