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ORIGINAL: Barb

I doubt it. As Far As I Know the servicing is done only on the home base. So a Roll is made for a flight just as if it was a fighter/bomber mission - based on Plane fatigue, Pilot fatigue, Weather, Pilot exp, at least.
I am not sure which weather affects the results - that on home base only (just like fighter/bomber missions) = landing accidents, or the one on receiving end, or both ?

What works for me is to stand down planes in days where weather is Rainy/Thunderstorms in one of the Home/Delivery base. This way you usually take-of, fly, land, take-of, fly, land in rather nice weather. It also keeps plane/pilot fatigue down due to maintenance and service in "soaked in" days.

ORIGINAL: mussey

ORIGINAL: Barb

I doubt it. As Far As I Know the servicing is done only on the home base. So a Roll is made for a flight just as if it was a fighter/bomber mission - based on Plane fatigue, Pilot fatigue, Weather, Pilot exp, at least.
I am not sure which weather affects the results - that on home base only (just like fighter/bomber missions) = landing accidents, or the one on receiving end, or both ?

What works for me is to stand down planes in days where weather is Rainy/Thunderstorms in one of the Home/Delivery base. This way you usually take-of, fly, land, take-of, fly, land in rather nice weather. It also keeps plane/pilot fatigue down due to maintenance and service in "soaked in" days.

Thanks for a good suggestion.

This is a part of the game that that frustrates me, namely the micromanagement of very mundane actions that could be automated. It would be nice if AC had 'weather' settings where an air squadron can have an option not to fly in stormy weather, or automatically stand down once a certain plane fatigue is reached.

So a question. What is more important for air transport missions, General experience or Trans skill?[&:]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: mussey

ORIGINAL: Barb

I doubt it. As Far As I Know the servicing is done only on the home base. So a Roll is made for a flight just as if it was a fighter/bomber mission - based on Plane fatigue, Pilot fatigue, Weather, Pilot exp, at least.
I am not sure which weather affects the results - that on home base only (just like fighter/bomber missions) = landing accidents, or the one on receiving end, or both ?

What works for me is to stand down planes in days where weather is Rainy/Thunderstorms in one of the Home/Delivery base. This way you usually take-of, fly, land, take-of, fly, land in rather nice weather. It also keeps plane/pilot fatigue down due to maintenance and service in "soaked in" days.

Thanks for a good suggestion.

This is a part of the game that that frustrates me, namely the micromanagement of very mundane actions that could be automated. It would be nice if AC had 'weather' settings where an air squadron can have an option not to fly in stormy weather, or automatically stand down once a certain plane fatigue is reached.

So a question. What is more important for air transport missions, General experience or Trans skill?[&:]

No data to support it but it seems that Exp is more important for nursing sputtering engines back to base or surviving bad weather while Trans is more for getting the job done well - especially on parachute ops (I think it affects casualty rates).
I think the "flying in bad weather" choice can be reduced by having the squadron commander with aggression only in the 50s range. Transport missions are rarely "must-do-at-all-costs".

ORIGINAL: Barb

Train Transport skill and then general, maybe add some hauling at short range.
- the ops losses are a function of EXP, while the "mission success" is function of skill (but I am not sure how this is incorporated into transport mission - for other skills it is relatively visible - an A2A kill or torpedo/bomb hit)

ORIGINAL: bobdina

Transport Missions as Principle Role

Missions include Supply Transport and Troop Transport. Air Groups include Transports, Patrol, and Level Bombers. Assign leader using these priorities:


Inspiration –Influences air group morale recovery.
Leadership – Influences the air group’s experience gain.
Of small import, Air Skill influences results in air-to-air combat.
No other skills or qualities have any influence. This is from the how to choose leaders thread that has been endorsed by Symon Whole thread here tm.asp?m=2350193&mpage=1&key= Symons post 30 deals with finer points. As a side note I train to 50 exp and 70 trans for trans squads and have low ops loses using the leaders guide for my squadrons no matter what kind.

ORIGINAL: mussey

Thanks for a good suggestion.

This is a part of the game that that frustrates me, namely the micromanagement of very mundane actions that could be automated. It would be nice if AC had 'weather' settings where an air squadron can have an option not to fly in stormy weather, or automatically stand down once a certain plane fatigue is reached.

So a question. What is more important for air transport missions, General experience or Trans skill?[&:]

ORIGINAL: Barb

I doubt it. As Far As I Know the servicing is done only on the home base. So a Roll is made for a flight just as if it was a fighter/bomber mission - based on Plane fatigue, Pilot fatigue, Weather, Pilot exp, at least.
I am not sure which weather affects the results - that on home base only (just like fighter/bomber missions) = landing accidents, or the one on receiving end, or both ?

What works for me is to stand down planes in days where weather is Rainy/Thunderstorms in one of the Home/Delivery base. This way you usually take-of, fly, land, take-of, fly, land in rather nice weather. It also keeps plane/pilot fatigue down due to maintenance and service in "soaked in" days.

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: mussey

Thanks for a good suggestion.

This is a part of the game that that frustrates me, namely the micromanagement of very mundane actions that could be automated. It would be nice if AC had 'weather' settings where an air squadron can have an option not to fly in stormy weather, or automatically stand down once a certain plane fatigue is reached.

So a question. What is more important for air transport missions, General experience or Trans skill?[&:]

Hans, thanks for the clarification. I think it's time to bring the manual back to my nightstand for emergency bedtime reading!

ORIGINAL: Yaab

No. Transport planes have the lowest durability out of all twin-engine aircraft in the whole game. That is why they die like flies in bad weather, and your experienced fighter pilots will not change that. Actually, try using bombers for supply runs. B-26 Marauder has 40 durability ( 10 points more than DC-2 Coffin) and carries 2 points of supply (they have 4000 capacity). Best Allied early transport for sure.

ORIGINAL: Yaab

Thread resurrection.

No-one has addressed one thing yet, namely aviation support numbers at the RECEIVING airfield. If you fly 30 transport aircraft laden with supply to a level 6 airfield with just 20 aviation support squads there, will that affect operational losses on the return leg?

EDIT: Actually, I guess there are situations when the receiving airfield has no aviation support at all.

ORIGINAL: Yaab

Just made a short test on Friday.

I damaged Paoshan airfield 100%, put the units there on rest ( so engineers do not fix the airfield) and tried flying supplies from Kunming with 21 DC-2s while there were 10 aviation support squads in Kunming.

Results.

- Paoshan airfield was being fixed anyway. Turn 2:97%, turn 3: 95% etc. So even with the engineers at Rest the airfield was getting repaired.

-there was no on-map message about supplies being delivered during the AIR TRANSPORT phase.

-the DC-2 pilots were accruing missions flown. On turn 3 some had 4 missions flown

-after three turns 15 aircraft were operational,while 6 were being repaired in Kunming


SUMMARY

Test inconclusive. Since I cannot cut-off Paoshan from supply from other cities, I don't know if the aircraft have delivered the supplies or not.