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Posted: **Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:23 pm**

Not present in AE.

Posted: **Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:19 am**

I think especially aircraft database will be Modders Heavenly Fodder after release. Not that I indicate that AE Air team is not doing good job [&o]...but everyone wants to add their own pet project. [:D]

Posted: **Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:59 am**

I know its a lot to ask, but would it be possible for the AE air team to provide a table which includes the ratings for aircraft which only served in the ETO. A short list would include Typhoon, Tempest, Maryland, Baltimore, Battle.  I suppose a detailed explanation of how ratings were calculated would do. 

Posted: **Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:09 am**

ORIGINAL: JeffK

I know its a lot to ask, but would it be possible for the AE air team to provide a table which includes the ratings for aircraft which only served in the ETO. A short list would include Typhoon, Tempest, Maryland, Baltimore, Battle. I suppose a detailed explanation of how ratings were calculated would do.

umm, no and no...[:)]

Posted: **Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:40 pm**

[center][/center]Yet another idea that hit far too late to matter, but is there any chance of changing the air art files to be more like the ship art in format at some time in the future? It's a lot easier to just copy new sides and shills into the correct folders than to try to line up plane tops and alphas.

Posted: **Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:32 pm**

ORIGINAL: Splinterhead

[center][/center]Yet another idea that hit far too late to matter, but is there any chance of changing the air art files to be more like the ship art in format at some time in the future? It's a lot easier to just copy new sides and shills into the correct folders than to try to line up plane tops and alphas.

Not for AE.

Posted: **Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:43 pm**

I thought not.

Posted: **Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:55 am**

Made it to the end...Again!  [:D]

Posted: **Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:38 am**

Placeholder for Knavey's post.

Posted: **Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:23 pm**

I don't really know if this issue have been adressed before- the air thread is a bit long now...
Will the speciality of instructor pilots withdrawn from combat duty affect the ratings of fresh pilots.
e.g. if I withdraw 50 dive bombing specialist, will they increase statistic only for dive bomber rookies,
or all rookies are gonna be effected. This could ba a possible exploit- one can withdrawn a 100 patrol plane pilots
with 90+ experience, set them as instructors, and get highly trained fighter pilots that way... [:(] [X(]

Posted: **Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:32 pm**

ORIGINAL: zuikaku

I don't really know if this issue have been adressed before- the air thread is a bit long now...
Will the speciality of instructor pilots withdrawn from combat duty affect the ratings of fresh pilots.
e.g. if I withdraw 50 dive bombing specialist, will they increase statistic only for dive bomber rookies,
or all rookies are gonna be effected. This could ba a possible exploit- one can withdrawn a 100 patrol plane pilots
with 90+ experience, set them as instructors, and get highly trained fighter pilots that way... [:(] [X(]

No not as it stands now. Replacement pilots aren't going to be much better than there National average in any one skill. Think of them as a blank slate to be filled in when they reach their operational units.

Posted: **Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:48 am**

ORIGINAL: TheElf

ORIGINAL: zuikaku

I don't really know if this issue have been adressed before- the air thread is a bit long now...
Will the speciality of instructor pilots withdrawn from combat duty affect the ratings of fresh pilots.
e.g. if I withdraw 50 dive bombing specialist, will they increase statistic only for dive bomber rookies,
or all rookies are gonna be effected. This could ba a possible exploit- one can withdrawn a 100 patrol plane pilots
with 90+ experience, set them as instructors, and get highly trained fighter pilots that way... [:(] [X(]
No not as it stands now. Replacement pilots aren't going to be much better than there National average in any one skill. Think of them as a blank slate to be filled in when they reach their operational units.

So, it really doesn't matter at all which type of pilots we withdraw to act as instructors?
Fighter pilots, torpedo bomber pilots, patrol pilots- the impact on rookies is the same?
woul'd be great that if we withdraw more dive bomber pilots we get higher quality replacemets for die bomber sqouadrons...
[;)]

Posted: **Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:02 am**

ORIGINAL: TheElf

ORIGINAL: zuikaku

I don't really know if this issue have been adressed before- the air thread is a bit long now...
Will the speciality of instructor pilots withdrawn from combat duty affect the ratings of fresh pilots.
e.g. if I withdraw 50 dive bombing specialist, will they increase statistic only for dive bomber rookies,
or all rookies are gonna be effected. This could ba a possible exploit- one can withdrawn a 100 patrol plane pilots
with 90+ experience, set them as instructors, and get highly trained fighter pilots that way... [:(] [X(]
No not as it stands now. Replacement pilots aren't going to be much better than there National average in any one skill. Think of them as a blank slate to be filled in when they reach their operational units.

Don't know if this is relevant to this comment, but USN carrier flyers prior to Pearl Harbor took turns flying and being assigned to all the squadrons on their ships, so a "fighter pilot" was also proficient on an SB2c, and a TBD, etc.....I cannot think of any other nation, nor service that this could be said of..

Posted: **Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:28 am**

ORIGINAL: TheElf

ORIGINAL: zuikaku

I don't really know if this issue have been adressed before- the air thread is a bit long now...
Will the speciality of instructor pilots withdrawn from combat duty affect the ratings of fresh pilots.
e.g. if I withdraw 50 dive bombing specialist, will they increase statistic only for dive bomber rookies,
or all rookies are gonna be effected. This could ba a possible exploit- one can withdrawn a 100 patrol plane pilots
with 90+ experience, set them as instructors, and get highly trained fighter pilots that way... [:(] [X(]
No not as it stands now. Replacement pilots aren't going to be much better than there National average in any one skill. Think of them as a blank slate to be filled in when they reach their operational units.

This would be where, in a future incarnation (AE-II), you would get rookie pilots being able to be allocated to an OTU (Operational Training Unit) where they would get in-type training for a few months

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:38 pm**

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Placeholder for Knavey's post.

[:D]Official placeholder post for when I return![:D]

Posted: **Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:52 pm**

Japanese Carrier Air Groups

1.Didn't the large Japanese Carriers have a few C6N?

2. Will the C6N be Carrier capable in AE?

3. Are the Japanese C6N1-S and C6N-3 Night Fighters in AE?

The following document seems to shows which carrier carried the C6N.

http://www.combinedfleet.com/kojinshavolume6.pdf

Posted: **Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:52 am**

Will we be able to access a list of air units in a CV TF much in the same way that you can access a list of air units on a specific air base?

Posted: **Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:39 pm**

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[font="times new roman"]My search for this turned up empty.[/font]
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[font="times new roman"]Will the AI be limited on how many units and types of units that can be converted to kamikaze? As most of us know most AI units are converted to kamikaze by mid 44.[/font]

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:05 pm**

OK, I did the search thing, which led to nothing, so sorry if this has been asked already.

Will the Q1-W1 Lorna (Tokai) be included in AE? There were ~150 built by war's end.

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:38 pm**

Air units are currently able to transfer to a new base and fly a mission on the same day. This seems rather unrealistic to me - surely rebasing would involve a certain amount of organisational disruption? As it is, an area which was devoid of air units can suddenly be swarming with them! Is this something you are going to look at for AE? It could be something as simple as setting all or a percentage of the aircraft to 'under repair' when they fly to new base.

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