Only if you're referring to UK (and US in the case of rel-rel-rel classing), yes. Other nations don't give you that choice.

Super elite acc gunners might be a choice for Italian main gunners, too, come to think of it.

(I don't play Italy, so no idea whether their acc growth is insufficient. I know that they have stonking reload growth)

All in all, I'd say super elite gunners are not that attractive compared to hero ones. In the current event you even get 2 heroes for one super elite, and an amazing 4 for one single super elite gunner.

On this page:

http://navyfield.com/Event/20150325/event01.aspx

You need to be logged in to be able to see it. Event runs until 12 May.

You earn coins, and 75 of those get you a hero sailor (all stats +14), 150 coins a super elite sailor (any except gunners), and 300 coins a super elite gunner (acc or rel).

Quite on the contrary - especially for fighters they are not worthless at all. I'd say a super elite fighter is actually the best use of a +15 stat.

+15 base is better than +14 base for fighter ability, simple as that. Obviously, there is no second pilot skill that would benefit from stats, other than a little repair/restore (which is a skill common to all sailors).

For all fighters and bombers, aircraft stat is not activated - apparently, this is always worthwhile repeating, as five years after the patch, not too many people seem to know this.

That's why these packs for 1050 olives - 50$! - are not that good a deal.

For me personally, the best gunners are, apart from heroes, 10acc/10rel with 12 repair for all nations except UK, and 12acc/10rel with 10 or 11 repair for UK (classed reload gunners).