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BananaConvention wrote: Thu May 09, 2024 4:22 am

Chris21wen wrote: Wed May 08, 2024 6:50 am As to losses, I've no idea but they will be heavy and I can say I've rarely done it and is not sensible unless you have dire need. Most I suspect lost on landing, taking off being the easy part. The later is the reason non carrier capable aircraft can be tranposrt on carriers and flown off during a transfer with few losses.

I've operated plenty of non-carrier trained squadrons on carriers in game and found the ops loss increase to be negligible. It's a non-issue to me. The need for aircraft on carriers exceeds my concern for the miniscule ops loss increase you may see prior to the 90-days.

Chris21wen wrote: Wed May 08, 2024 6:50 am What Ranger Joe said. Stick a carrier capable ac on carrier and leave it, in 90 days it will be carrier trained. I've been testing these in a game just to confirm it and I'm 10 days away from doing just that. I will post here when I have the results.

As to losses, I've no idea but they will be heavy and I can say I've rarely done it and is not sensible unless you have dire need. Most I suspect lost on landing, taking off being the easy part. The later is the reason non carrier capable aircraft can be tranposrt on carriers and flown off during a transfer with few losses.

Chris21wen wrote: Sun May 19, 2024 12:58 pm

Chris21wen wrote: Wed May 08, 2024 6:50 am What Ranger Joe said. Stick a carrier capable ac on carrier and leave it, in 90 days it will be carrier trained. I've been testing these in a game just to confirm it and I'm 10 days away from doing just that. I will post here when I have the results.

As to losses, I've no idea but they will be heavy and I can say I've rarely done it and is not sensible unless you have dire need. Most I suspect lost on landing, taking off being the easy part. The later is the reason non carrier capable aircraft can be tranposrt on carriers and flown off during a transfer with few losses.

OK tests are now complete. It takes approx 90 days to carrier train a unit. There appeares to be some small random element involved and the time does not have to be consecutive. See these examples.
A DB unit was placed on a cve t182 and trained t267.
Anothe unit was placed on a cve t178 and trained t267 and that included a transfer to a different cve.
Third one was placed on a cve t182, transfered to a base t237 and back to a carrier t239 and becme fully trained t172.

PaxMondo wrote: Wed May 22, 2024 10:25 am

Chris21wen wrote: Sun May 19, 2024 12:58 pm

Chris21wen wrote: Wed May 08, 2024 6:50 am What Ranger Joe said. Stick a carrier capable ac on carrier and leave it, in 90 days it will be carrier trained. I've been testing these in a game just to confirm it and I'm 10 days away from doing just that. I will post here when I have the results.

As to losses, I've no idea but they will be heavy and I can say I've rarely done it and is not sensible unless you have dire need. Most I suspect lost on landing, taking off being the easy part. The later is the reason non carrier capable aircraft can be tranposrt on carriers and flown off during a transfer with few losses.

OK tests are now complete. It takes approx 90 days to carrier train a unit. There appeares to be some small random element involved and the time does not have to be consecutive. See these examples.
A DB unit was placed on a cve t182 and trained t267.
Anothe unit was placed on a cve t178 and trained t267 and that included a transfer to a different cve.
Third one was placed on a cve t182, transfered to a base t237 and back to a carrier t239 and becme fully trained t172.

Think you meant t272 at the very end ...

DeZanic wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 9:28 am I don't know how you guys do it but I detach my carrier-air-groups from the carrier and let them fight on their own from remote airfields and i rebased them constantly where there are needed and I think they do great havoc.

If a carrier needs to go to dry-dock for months I think its a reasonable tactic. How do you guys do it. What did carrier-air-groups do in real life if their carrier was in dry-dock? Just curious.