Do fighters need Co-pilot?

[Malkuth]

Just wondering because with the super carrier you get 8 Fighers but only 8 pilots. Any reason not to have the first 4 fighters with Co-pilots? Nice to have all 8 fighters going

[ 12-19-2001: Message edited by: Malkuth ]

[Tyrn]

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Originally posted by Malkuth:

Just wondering because with the super carrier you get 8 Fighers but only 8 pilots. Any reason not to have the first 4 fighters with Co-pilots? Nice to have all 8 fighters going

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Not a requirement but two sets of eyes sees more than one.

[Emmett.hendrick]

And I Quote from the manual(not literally as I don't have it in my hand)

"A fighter requires 1 pilot to fly"

So if you man your fighters with 1 pilot each you should be able to launch all 8.

[Supreme Cmdr]

uhm, what the heck is that AngelFire logo doing in your sig?

[IRSWalker]

During my very brief flirtation as a supercarrier commander (things are too slow for me) I tried assigning all eight pilots to a fighter each.

My experience, and this is purely subjective, is that they seemed to die an awful lot quicker than fighters with copilots.

For instance, on the first mission of the campaign (escort the diplomats) I assigned 4 single-pilot fighters to escort the diplomat (since the suppercarrier couldn't keep up with it. They all died. Same mission, with two dual-pilot fighters to escort the diplomat, both fighters survived. Luck, maybe, but I drew my own conclusion that it was more expensive, resource wise.

On the other hand, escorting the carrier, under the protection of the PTA system, they seemed more than capable of holding their own with only the pilot. So I ended up with the following standing orders (changed whenever circumstances dictated)

Highest AI pilot: pilot FC1

Lowest AI pilot: copilot FC1

2nd Highest AI pilot: pilot PC2

2nd Lowest AI pilot: copilot FC2

Other pilots: single pilots for FC3-6

FC1 and 2 got assigned to missions away from the carrier, and FC3-6 were held in readiness for carrier defence.

I gave up on the supercarrier and went back to my Nightstar soon after, so I can't really say whether this was perfect or not, but it seemed to work. One good thing was that I tended to launch the carrier defense FCs in pairs at a time, meaning that there was always a pair of defenders on standby while flight prep was being done on the other two.

Hope this helps

Smiley

[Guardian452]

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Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr:

uhm, what the heck is that AngelFire logo doing in your sig?

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Looks like Angelfire is one of those free-hosts that wont link graphics properly. You can see it if you paste the graphic url in your browser, views the pic, and return to the forums (as I have done). A better solution would be to get a more conventional host though.

[Emmett.hendrick]

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Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr:

uhm, what the heck is that AngelFire logo doing in your sig?

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Sorry SC Tyrn has posted me a new link to the file and I have updated my sig with same should be sorted soon.