Because the Luftwaffe had no pilot reserves. Even the RAF didn't have "reserves", as such. Oh, come on, Nashwan, should I remind you that last time you could even tell the difference between a
Gruppe and a [/i]Staffel ? You actually believed that the German Gruppe is equivalent of a Squadron, whereas a Gruppe in reality consisted of 3-4 Staffeln (Squadrons).
You have no idea about how German air units are built up. That`s why you fail/refuse to understand that in the British system, the reserve planes/pilots were issued to the firstline Squadron,
whereas in the German system the replacements pilots came to the Jagdgeschwader from different named reserve units, which are of course are not counted in the first line strenght.
You count British Squadrons, which included the reserves in their structure, but only count the German first line units, that don`t include the reserves in their structure.
No. The RAF had the luxury of keeping a large part of their strength away from the battle. The RAF even had the luxury to let itself spanked all over Norway, the Low Countries, France, Dunkerque, the German Bay, the Channel and it`s own airfields.

You call it luxury, I call it poor organisation.
"The Germans gave it everything they had in the Battle of Britain. And the Brits stoped them with half of what they had." Source? Modern British history book for the elementary school classes ?
The RAF could afford to keep a large proportion of it's strength out of the battle at any one time, and new pilots were frequently posted to squadrons in quiet areas to gain experience. A nice way to put how inflexible the British defense system was. No group was really allowed to interfere with the other group`s actions. Result : the group on the south was decimated, while the others were doing virtually nothing.
The problem with that claim is that a new pilot can only have 5 - 10 hours for a short time, before they begin to gain experience. The problem with it for you that it is true. The RAF was throwing untrained rookies into the battle by September. Fact. Live with it.
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Given that both parties are of equal quality, the more numorous should of course. But this wasn`t the case, it was quality vs. quantity again. 1000+ fighters, yes, but only 1/3 of them were equal to the 109s.
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Strangely they still managed to win. Uhm... win ? Surviving perhaps while being bombed every day and night at will by the LW.
The Luftwaffe were pressuring the RAF with a very high sortie rate and attacks on airfields. They began those tactics in the last week of August, when they flew nearly 4000 fighter sorties. But they couldn't sustain it, flying only 3200 sorties in the first week of September, then dropping to only 1400 in the second week of September. ... and similiarly, the RAF`s fighter sorties also dropped? Why?
They didn't. The RAF flew 5000 sorties the last week of August, 4900 the first week of September. Sept
8 : 215
9 : 466
10 : 224
11 : 678
12 : 247
13 : 209
14 : 806
Total : 2845
Typical Naswhan`s.
Claim : The LW was breaking. Reason : Their fighter sorties were dropping in the
2nd week of September. (Typical selective thinking, comparing virtually all British - fighter - sorties vs. only a partition of all the German - fighter and bomber - sorties)
Claim : LW`s sorties were dropping, 4000 in last week of August, 3200 in 1st week of Sept, only 1400 in 2nd week of September. (wouldn`t swore on those numbers either).
And The Great Bluff: The magnicent RAF`s number don`t show any similiar.
Facts :
RAF daylight fighter sorties :
last week of August : 5009 sorties
1st week of Sept : 5284
2nd week of Sept : 2845
So much for Naswhan`s "RAF sortie numbers were not dropping in the 2nd week of September."
In fact they did. To their half... so, by Naswhan-standards, "the RAF was breaking". (I would merely say that the bad weather in September were preventing sorties, which is acknowledged by both High Commands as could be read above)
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Well, the weather:
7th September 1940 : Fair with some haze.
8th September 1940 : Fair early morning and evening, cloudy for the remainder of the day
9th September 1940 : Scattered showers, thundery in the east. Channel fair.
10th September 1940 : Generally cloudy, some rain.
11th September 1940 : Mainly fine with some local showers. Cloud in the Channel and Thames Estuary.
12th September 1940 : Unsettled, rain in most districts
13th September 1940 : Unsettled.
14th September 1940 : Showers and local thunder. Cloud in the Straits, Channel and Thames Estuary
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Trust me, that's good for a British summer. It also only covers the second week of Sept, not the first week, when the sortie rate was already dropping. German sortie rate was increasing, not dropping.
German sorties according to the RAF`s 1940 reports:
August :
26 : 400
27 : 75
28 : 400
29 : 360
30 : 600
31 : 800
Sept
1 : 450
2 : 850
3 : 600
4 : 650
5 : 450
6 : 720
7 : 700
8 : 170
9 : 400
10 : 50
11 : 500
12 : 50
13 : 90
14 : 400
So the facts:
1, German sortie rate was increasing in the 1st week of September, not decreasing.
2, Given the sudden drops to almost no offensive sorties on the 10th ("Generally cloudy, some rain."), 12nd ("Unsettled, rain in most districts"), 13rd of September ("Unsettled"), it is clear that the weather was restricting both side`s air activities greatly, which was advantagous to the RAF.
It`s more like a simple case that the Automn was coming, and the weather turned bad, making flying impossible.
But not for the RAF, apparently. RAF daylight fighter sorties :
last week of August : 5009 sorties
1st week of Sept : 5284
2nd week of Sept : 2845
If weather was not the reason as you say, then only German fighters could have been.
Isegrim, that's the 16th, the third week of September. Find a similar comment for the second week, when the sorties dropped. Let alone the first week of September, wjem they were down from the last week of August. You know, the weeks we are discussing.
No, that`s wrong. If Britain actually though the German front line strenght was 5800 planes, then it was quite correct. The actual German numbers for 11th April 1940 was 5298 planes, including 1356 s-e fighters, 1711 bombers and 414 dive bombers and others.
Those are the three plane types the RAF were refering to as frontline strength. The rest, the transports, recce aircraft etc were not considered front line strength. The RAF actually believed the Luftwaffe possesed 14,000 including transports, training aircraft etc. Well then I agree with you that British intelligence was damn near useless regarding the LW`s strenght.
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As sidenote, to the "Jagdwaffe was breaking in September" fanatics, it`s interesting to note that the German fighter strenght was increasing in Septmber, ie. the 7th state was 831 single engined fighters (increased to 920 by the 28th Sept), of which 658 was servicable (increased to 712 by the 28th). The RAF had 621 fighters servicable on the 7th of September, which fell slightly, to 604 servicable fighters on the 28th.
Source? Source : Übersicht über Soll, Istbestand, Einsatzbereitschaft, Verluste und Reserven der fliegenden Verbänden
I think it's possible, however, because the Luftwaffe was suffering more from pilot shortages. Overy gives the following figures for Luftwaffe 109 pilots ready for duty:
1st june 906
1st aug 869
1st sept 735
1st nov 673
Without the pilots available, the mechanics had more time to work on getting planes serviceable.A rather laughable explanation....

Does Overy also give the number of Spit/Hurri pilots?
Strictly counting only those who are considered "Ready For Action", and not counting the actual strenght (just like Overy neglects German actual pilot strenght to arrive at the lowest number possible, not to mention he only counts firstline Jagdwaffe strenght w/o the reserves ("Erganzungseinheiten")? Considering that over 50% of the RAF pilot`s were having flown about 5-15 hours on their planes, "Ready to be Butchered" would be much more appropriate.