ORIGINAL: cantona2
Focus on Tranining
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I also have 9 very highly skilled pilots in TRACOM, mostly combat veterans and Aces. .
Those pilots might do more for your training if you assigned them to a training squadron, instead of TRACOM. I believe pilots are more likely to grain experience or skill if they are below the squadron average. Putting one or two superstars in a squadron helps make sure that all your trainees are below squadron average, and they all have an improved chance to gain skill. This belief has not been tested.
Here is my understanding of TRACOM:
1) Each nationality has a group of pilots in training.
2) These pilots are not listed as individuals anywhere, you cannot track them individually. However, the system knows how much experience they have, and each training cycle, each pilot gains some experience.
3) Trainees have a chance to gain extra experience if there are pilots in TRACOM. More TRACOM pilots makes for more bonus experience.
4) When a trainee reaches his nationality's Base experience level, he 'graduates' and shows up in the replacement pool
5) However, if the replacements pool is close to empty, extra trainees will graduate, but they be below the national standard
My conclusion
TRACOM cannot boost your Graduates' experience beyond your nationality's Base experience level, it just means you will have more graduates. But, in the case that you are being very hard on pilots, TRACOM helps graduate pilots at the Base level instead of below it
If you think that you might drain your replacement pool, then TRACOM is important. If you think a lack of airframes will always be your bigger problem, then you can just leave TRACOM empty. I think it was JWE that said they only added TRACOM to the US to be fair. It's more a tool for a Japanese player who plans to expand air production beyond what was historical.
