Did your planes properly reload?

as in armament after mission? I have stripped the ship to keel 3 times trying to reset. I have tried running with only torp bombers and no other aircraft. The deck that once launched 8 can now only launch 3 torp bombers. but still can launch 8 of all other aircraft.

• Mayhap thats it. Not sure why the limit declined over two weeks from 8 to 5 to 4 to now 3 though. I have one torp bomb pilot. vet 3 exp 0 rook 0. is that the problem. am i a dope? Why would it decline thou?

You need atleast one expert per plane takeoff on the pilot.

You also REALLY need to think about not playing CV until you have a set of pilots FULL VE and preferrably boosted. Any aircraft with a low stat pilot will die to AAW or even a Scout! As it is, running with no experts or vets, you are a liability to your team.

I might be misunderstanding your statement of a pilot with only 3 vets, no experts and no rookies.   I just can't believe this is correct or you could let a pilot decline to this level.   This has to be a typo of some sort.

I've never run into a shortage of deck capacity and I have 3 USN CVs and 2 IJN CVs working right now.   Then again,  I have NEVER let my pilots operate less then full of sailors.

Pilots should be loaded to the maximum with vets and experts with only a small amount of rookies for cannon fodder.   Pilots take casualties and you need the rookies to take many of the hits as opposed to loosing experts or vets.   You will loose skilled sailors but the software tends to eliminate rookies more then skilled sailors.     As you accumulate losses, you can promote your rookies to experts while keeping some rookies for cannon fodder.   A number less then 10 rookies per pilot is ideal.   4 would be the minium number of rookies per sailor but 5 or 6 is ideal.

The suggestion of Boosting your pilots is correct.   The immediate effect of boosting increases the stats by 20% which means your pilots will be 20% better then without boosting.   Boosting also increases the ability growth rate  which means your pilots ability will grow more than a pilot with out boosting.   (20% more again).

I would guess that the lack of experts and vets on your pilots is the cause of your problem.

Fill all sailors with Crew Problem will go away

Also this thread shall be under technical support.

A pilot needs enough experts/vets to launch planes. A pilot of 3 vets no experts can launch 3 planes.

That being said playing an ecv with 1 pilot is leeching.