I am sorry, I did not make clear, the conversions were smaller ships(Langely) not (Yorktown). The Kaiser foisted them onto the Fleet. I have been told that RECCE was all 1914 planes were good for. My thought was, bomb the turrets, start cordite fires, then mag. would blow. The bombs carried were not big enough to this, I was told. Wait till later, for torpedoes.
Along with doing no research and little thinking, you're putting the cart before the horse here.
In 2011, aircraft are incredibly versatile and powerful weapon systems with a proven track record nearly a century long. In 2011, carriers are arguably still the Queens of the Sea with an ability to project power over vast distances and have been acknowledged as such for almost seventy years.
Here's your problem:
Before WW1 no one knows this. You're mistakenly assuming what we know in 2011 was also known in 1911.
The Kaiser foists two carriers on the High Seas Fleet?
Why?. People have just begun flying single planes off makeshift flight platforms mounted on the turrets of various cruisers and battleships. Why is the Kaiser going to make the leap from those few experiments to building a ship with a full flight deck launching and recovering multiple planes?
You want planes used for reconnaissance?
How? Primitive radio transmitters for airplanes weren't developed until almost three years after WW1 began and then thanks to the need to observe artillery fire. Before that, recon by aircraft over land or sea involved either landing or dropping messages to report what had been seen. Why will those transmitters be developed earlier than they were? Because if they aren't maritime airplane recon isn't going to be useful.
You want planes dropping ordnance?
Huh? Before the need arose during WW1, airplanes didn't have weapons mounted at all and during the first year or so of the war "bombing" amounted to the pilot tossing out ordnance by hand. Why will the Kaiser's airplanes be mounting large bombs or torpedoes before the war?
Before the war the German navy did plan on using aerial recon during the war. Zeppelins filled the role. They could carry and power radio transmitters. They had the range and endurance too. Their navigation was spotty and bomb sights beyond primitive, so their bombing capabilities were almost useless, but they're what the Germans could most plausibly have
before WW1 so they're what you're stuck with...
... until you do the work necessary to create a POD beyond
"The Kaiser ordered it done."