Why Everything is more Complicated than it Seems

[Banzan]

Well, i never had enough T.IVa left for use, but i checked the editor and the dutch use them on the DB, T.IV, Hurricane, P-40 and PBY-5. I guess i need to check my memory. [;)]

[LoBaron]

The period of aviation based Dutch resistance is short enough to forget these stats. [;)]

Since Hurricane and P-40 don´t fly ASW that leaves us with DB, T.IV and PBY-5.

[sventhebold]

Pilot training is a difficult at best. Each individual has their own unique gifts, abilities and outright talent. I have seen many pilots undergo training. The average was 12 to 18 months to LEARN all the basics and then integrate all of them to a tee. Then the long term experience gave them the seasoning to become the supremely confident pilots they could be.

The time frame varied with some pilots as they were not as gifted as others and then there were some VERY gifted pilots that made this look easy. I myself passed out at 7.5 G's in a vertical scissors. I felt like shizzz for a couple days and my neck hurt for weeks. I came away with a deeper respect for those pukes as they did this day and night.

I had the honor of meeting General Yeager in Germany and he talked about his time in WW2 and the hard earned victories he  had AND the new tactics of deflection angle shooting. He said "I wished I had know about this earlier I could of had more victories." This you can interpret as a maturing institutional learning cycle if you like as the Army and Air Force learned from their
mistakes and plain old experience taught them how to fight BETTER than before over time.

Some of this I could attribute to the saying of tankers in the German Army talking about the Americans. "We can knock out 10 American tanks but they always have an 11th one that gets us." The same could be said of the Americans as we did not have the best at first and got our heads handed to us a few times but we had MORE pilots to bring to the fight and we learned and we went on.

I don't have any doubt a 70/70/70 pilots for the ENTIRE squadron or Sentai is not a normal thing because human nature prevents this from happening. It should be the exception not the rule. SO where do we create a model that reflects these abilities?  Just like any graduating class there are the top and the bottom and every one in between. Therefore a sliding scale of some sort is possible to reflect these traits. Each one can fly an airplane but not all are fighter pilots and some are transport pilots because it is all they can handle.

With that thought in mind conceptually maybe only 20% of any given graduating class can excel at fighter operations. Then maybe only 20% can fly a torpedo plane. You get my drift.

No dishonor intended just the realities of life. And the expensive cost of aircraft. You only want the best in the cockpit of an A6m2 or an F4F.