If you launch, Bawanna, you also have to trap back aboard. Your launches should always equal your traps. I can say that mine did, but only because the only time I ever lost an aircraft, I took off from a land base.
Don't they fly the planes to land bases when they come into port sometimes. That would be my time, take off on the boat, land on the land.
Carrier is too small a target, but I'm sure you already know that.
In Memory of Paul "Dietrich" Stines.
Dad: Say something nice to your cousin Shirley
Dietrich: For a fat girl you sure don't sweat much.
Cue sound of Head slap.
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Yes they fly most of the air wing off before docking. But then you would have to fly back to the boat after it left port. Otherwise your launches and traps wouldn't be equal.
The flight deck looks small from altitude on a sunny afternoon. You should see it at 3:00 AM during a thunderstorm.
It's possible for hard chrome (dunno if that's what you have) to make steel brittle. A special "heat soak" treatment has to be done as soon as the plated parts come out of the plating vat, or cracked parts can result, especially upon repeated high imact.