"If you can fly it before, you will be able to fly it after". Since you're currently flying said carrier, yes, you will be able to fly it afterwards.

No, you will not be getting Capital Ships and JFC levels for free, those are requirements to *inject* the {racial} Carrier skill, not fly the ship. Hence they will have no effect on your ability to fly the carrier you are already flying. The only things you will need after the patch to fly a carrier is {Racial} Carrier 1 and Capital Ships 1 and since you must already have those if you're already flying the carrier, you'll be flying it fine afterwards.

Now, if you decide to train for a different race's carrier, you will need to train those skills before injecting the new {racial} Carrier skill

Not sure this is correct, you can inject the carrier skill without having jump drive operation, although you can not fly the carrier without jdo. So the initial question is valid, if CCP states that if you can fly it before, you can fly it after, then how are they going to handle the addition of the new skills like jump drive operation 5 and jump fuel conservation?

That's because the carrier itself requires JDO,

also, this is a moot point anyway since you should have jdc IV anyway when flying a cap

If CCP just added the words "skillbook" and "inject" to most of the devblogs there wouldnt be nearly as much fun, I mean confusion, on the forums about this.

I currently fly a Carrier.

The following skill changes are going to happen:

"Capital Ships requirement on all Carriers and Supercarriers increased from 3 to 4"
"Adding the Jump Fuel Conservation skill at 4 as prerequisite"
"Adding the Jump Drive Calibration skill at 3 as prerequisite"

I only have Capital Ships to 3 and JFC to 3.

Under the "If you can fly it now, you can still fly it after the patch" promise, will I still be able to fly aforementioned carrier?

Will I get these skills bumped up to level 4 by CCP, or is "free SP" only being given out with regards to the Destroyer/BC changes?

That's because the carrier itself requires JDO,

also, this is a moot point anyway since you should have jdc IV anyway when flying a cap

Those prerequisites are not so much for flying the ship, but needed to inject the racial carrier skill. If you already have the racial carrier skill injected, even if still at level 0, you will still be able to fly the ship once you train the right level (carrier 3). Even if you have never flown one, but inject the racial carrier skill before the change you will not need to meet the new prerequisites.

Are you sure about that? Unless they changed the way prerequisite skills work, you will require the prereqs to train the skill.

SO, if you have injected the carrier skill, and have not trained it to level 1, you WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TRAIN IT until you meet the new prereqs.

If you have it trained to at least 1, you will be able to continue flying your carrier, BUT you will not be able to train it higher then level one until you meet the new prereqs.

Under the "If you can fly it now, you can still fly it after the patch" promise, will I still be able to fly aforementioned carrier?

Please train Reading Comprehension and Search to at least rank III before posting thread#934857 about this. Thank you.