Thanks Andy for the information about campaigns.  That's what I thought, but wasn't sure.  
As for low visibility situations, this is directly out of the online instructions manual:
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				Note low visibility (less than 40 hexes or so) means that air strikes are unlikely to be allocated, even if set to a positive number in the preferences screen, as visibility is too low at the airfields for flying that day.
			
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