McNaughton
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One thing that I kept on having to get used to is that turns are one day, not one week, like PacWar. When an air group changes over aircraft type, it does take some workup to get the planes operational. One assumes that the aircraft are brought in through road/rail/ship when replacing aircraft (otherwize you SHOULD lose a certain % of aircraft if ferried by pilots resulting in accepted attrition), so they are most likely in crates. Planes have to be uncrated, cleaned, put together and given preliminary tests. Also, rarely did an airgroup switch planes in a combat zone. Advice. For all of your frontline squadrons turn off replace aircraft with new type. When you get a replacement squadron (or a front turns quiet), and have built up the reserve pool of new aircraft, simply rotate in the new squadron and put the old frontline squadron in reserve and set it to accept new planes. In a month or so it should be up to full strength/readiness. Replacing a squadron in the front line will give you the same problem you had. Everything is damaged, and air operations will just slow down the process (as repaired planes get damaged, they then have to be repaired, temporarily shelving getting the other aircraft operational). You then have to face the dilemma about keeping an experienced group in the frontlines with older planes, or pull them out for a month to get them new equipment. This also sets up another dilemma, do you keep a reserve of aircraft squadrons ready to fill in when frontline squadrons need upgrading, or to you have everything you can at the front and pull out when you want to replace aircraft? It could take half a year to upgrade an entire airforce if done properly.
< Message edited by McNaughton -- 7/13/2004 2:48:40 AM >
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