How do you load planes onto aircraft carriers?

WayneBo wrote:

if the carrier is still in port, the aircraft cannot land. move the carrier a bit to sea.

It may or may not be a "bug." If it is a bug, then the developers accidentally introduced an element of realism. Most fixed-wing aircraft are too heavy and too fast to land on carriers when the carrier is standing still. Carrier operations then and now rely on the relative airspeed of the moving carrier moving into the wind, because carrier planes land and stop in about 1/10th of the runway distance in which a land-based fighter jet lands and comes to a stop. A modern carrier jet has a stall speed of about 120 to 130 knots, and the faster a plane is moving the greater the likelihood of some kind of landing-related accident occurring. By steaming at 20 to 25 knots, the carrier reduces the relative speed of the landing aircraft by 20 to 25 knots; by steaming into the wind, the carrier further reduces the relative speed of the landing aircraft by another 5 to 10 knots. Even so, landing on a carrier is a dangerous proposition, and only naval aviators who are specifically trained and qualified to do it are allowed on a carrier flight deck. Air force jet jockeys who are used to 3,000 to 5,000-foot runways need not apply.

MontanaBB wrote:

the developers accidentally introduced an element of realism

"Accidental" being the key word.

Realism is not #1 priority with bystro, or even #10.

As an advocate, I assume you have a 'realistic' justification for BB having to stop dead in the water to fire their main battery?

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WayneBo wrote:

As an advocate, I assume you have a 'realistic' justification for BB having to stop dead in the water to fire their main battery?

Nope. Somewhere, John Jellicoe and his Royal Navy battlecruisers are spinning.