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Dino -> RE: Question re: pilot fatigue (2/1/2008 9:59:30 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Brazil Banzai
I guess then I am wondering how my most experienced pilots will ever get a break? Does the whole squad have to go on rest at some point, in order to insure my aces are grounded for a day?
In the short run, the only way to rest the experienced pilots is to stand the unit down.
In the long run, you want to work up the experience of the rookies so that they become eligible for selection which in turn means that the aces will get a chance to rest. In other words, you have to make the rookies fly and you can do this if you make the whole unit fly. Once the experience span in the unit is more even, they will start to rotate.
The good news is that experience gain is inversely proportional to pilots' current experience, so rookies will benefit from a mission more than the aces, enabling them to eventually even out.
The bad news is that there are some prerequisites for making the whole unit fly. You need to have all your ACs in a ready state, which means you can't fly them every day. The pilots need to have high morale and low fatigue, which also means you can't fly them every day...in this case a good commander (with high inspiration) is very helpfull. And finally, you need an Air HQ within the range.
For recon units the solution is simpler...Just place the unit in the base from which a lot of bombing is conducted. AFAIK, recons normally fly only two sorties per turn (one AM, one PM), but if in the same base as bombers, they will fly additional sorties to accompany bombing missions. That will cause experienced pilots to eventually become fatigued enough to allow low exp pilots to fly...the more bombing runs over various targets in a single turn, the better.
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