Repairing fighters?

[LizardSF (OP)]

So, I finally learned how to repair ships. Now, I have a lot of fighters breaking down, and they have no maintenance supplies. I can't repair them at a shipyard. How do I repair them? Do they need to be assigned to a carrier or other mothership? At the moment, they're just orbiting my homeworld, and cluttering up my event list with "Fighter Audacious #18 has suffered an equipment failure..." messages.

[Black]

Build some orbital dock or carrier for them and dock them inside to repair your fighters. If you just want to store them, you can build a PDC with hangar.

[Brian Neumann]

I don't know if you are aware of this, but fighters have to be in a hanger bay to keep from running up their maintenance.  Having them in orbit of a planet with a maintenance facility will not help them at all.  You can store them in a pdc, but will not be able to repair them there.  If you have an orbital base/carrier they can be repaired if there is enough maintenance supplies on board.

Brian

[LizardSF (OP)]

Yeah, I built my fighters before researching hanger technology. I may need to design my first carrier quick. orbit is getting cluttered with fighter bits.

[Nibelung44]

Boat bay, although less efficient can do the trick... You can rotate them by squadron of 12 in and out of a 3000 tons capacity orbital facility for example.

[LizardSF (OP)]

Well, I've built a PDC that contains a bunch of hangers, and this lets me overhaul, but I still can figure out how to repair them when they have no maintenance bays/supplies. I can't repair them individually as ships, and I can't seem to find a way to get the PDC to repair them. What am I missing?

[Black]

You need orbital base or carrier to repair fighters, PDC is only for storage.