no.

use more pilots to send up a full squad of planes. i've seen too many people putting 9, 10 or even 11 planes on one pilot. just ridiculous. hope you werent one of them

I just want to explain this in more detail (since many people don't seem to understand).

Lets say you want to load 9 fighters.

You could load all of them on one pilot, which would take 9 times as long as 1 plane.

Or you could use 3 pilots and load 3 planes on each, which means you would load 9 planes and it would take 3 times as long as one plane.

The second method lets you load the 9 planes 3 times faster than loading all 9 planes on one pilot.

As the people above me said use multiple pilots at once and load about 3 to a pilot. they load much faster and you can launch more planes frequently and wont be yelled at by the bbs.

Thanks! And for the record i rarely load full squadrons.

With my Essex, I have 4 fighter pilots and 2 dive bombers. I basically play like a fighter whore and rarely load my dive bombers.

With 9 max to load, I fly 3 planes per pilot, and try to spread them out for max coverage for sight and to catch enemy scouts and bombers. I leave my pilots in the air until they run out of fuel. I very rarely run out of planes in GB. I do well if I can keep 3 pilots constantly in the air and refueling as soon as they go down out of fuel.

I get into trouble when I am micro managing my pilots to keep them away from higher level enemy pilots and AA. What happens is I get to busy trying to keep my pilots out of trouble that I don't stay on top of refueling and end up with no pilots in the air and all of them on deck refueling, where they are of no help to the BBs.

I think I do pretty well keeping an eye on the enemy BBs when I need to cover half the map. I have a real hard time when later in the game I have to cover the whole map. For example, I might do a good job covering the northern have, but if the southern half fails, I find it really hard to cover both halves.