as soon as you click on sky rider helicopter, you can no longer click on anything else but send him somewhere and redeploy merc to another assignment, lose time save and go to tactical screen buttons.

Moving the mercs in the helicopter via the merc menu on the left works but leaves the skyrider text locked on screen like previous bug.

save just before delivering skyrider to his helicopter,
deliver him,
listen to speech, go to world map and get his speech about Sam sites,
Sam site Text box is now stuck on all screens until game quit and restart.

fast clicking through his conversations or not the text box sticks