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I have noticed this problem as well. I moved 18 ready Nells, no planes in repair or reserve, with 18 pilots from Rabaul to Lunga. When I looked the next turn I had 18 Nells but only 10 pilots and the air unit was set for training at zero level so no planes would fly after transfer so they could recover fatigue quicker. I had plenty of avaition support at Lunga at the time of transfer to cover the new Nells and even that didn't do the trick. Lunga was also at Level 5, and then quickly expanded to level 6 and still I have received no new pilots at Lunga for the lonely Nells. The air unit has gained another Nell, but I have not received new pilots for this unit while the other two Nell units in Rabaul are gaining new A/C and pilots and it no longer has sufficient avaition support for all the planes there! There is something still wrong with how the program is allocating pilots to air units when they're not at some major base that was major at the start. I don't see the problem when I transfer from Truk to Rabaul and I didn't notice this when I transferred all my Betty's to Lae, even when that base didn't have the avaition support to cover the 200+ bombers.
Thanks,

Eric Larsen

Eric,

I note the same behaviour about which bases are subjected to this.

It SEEMS that things happen as they should with bases you already have at the start of the scenario, but on the ones you pick up, the new ones, things start to go bad for pilot transfers.

BTW, what was the worse example of this you ever saw?

Once, I had 27 count ZERO and no pilots after a transfer to Gili-Gil, and back at the base they left (Rabaul), I had a '0' strength ZERO with 1 under repair with 138 pilots assigned it!