Harrybanana -> In Defence of Canadian Pilots (2/19/2016 7:06:18 PM)
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In my game with Liquid Sky it is only T17 but I have already run out of trained Canadian pilots and have a large shortfall. Perhaps this is because of the fierce air battles we have fought, but I note that I have very large numbers of British and American pilots. I am not aware of the RCAF ever running out of trained pilots during the War. Certainly my father (an air frame mechanic) never told me any stories about the Lancs sitting unused on the airfields because of a pilot shortage. Canada was, as most people know, the home of the Commonwealth Air Training Program. As a result it is my understanding that a disproportionate number of young Canadian men chose to join the air force rather than the Army or Navy. By Wars end the RCAF had 200,000+ men (and some women) under its command. It was the 4th largest air force in the World. Accordingly, I don't understand why Canada, with 1/4 the population of Britain, receives only 1/9th the number of pilots per turn, or with 1/10th the population of the US receives only 1/14th the number of pilots per turn. Especially since, unlike Britain and the US, all of the RCAF's active overseas squadrons were stationed in Europe. Can someone explain to me how the number of pilots each nation receives per turn was arrived at?
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