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   From: SolomonW@citi.com   
      
   On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:43:09 -0800, The Horny Goat wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 19:55:45 +1100, SolomonW    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00:29 +1100, Phil McGregor wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Lack of experience was, indeed, a problem ... but it was lack of   
   >>> *combat* experience rather than lack of *flight* experience. They were   
   >>> sending newly trained pilots to operational units,   
   >>   
   >>In the book "The most dangerous enemy by Stephen Bungay" on p373, there   
   >>is a short discussion on this question. He does not state the reasons why   
   >>exactly, but he is firm that these British replacement pilots were not   
   >>nearly as good as the old one.   
   >>   
   >>Having said that, this problem would have affected the Germans too. Their   
   >>replacement pilots would need time to learn, which is basically what you   
   >>said.   
   >>   
   > This affects all pilots wth the possible excepton of the Soviets who   
   > suffered  such losses on 22 Jun 1941.   
      
   In 1941, they were throwing in pilots that had almost no training and from   
   what I read it was only towards the end of ww2 that Russian pilot training   
   in hours started equaling Western training times.   
      
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