Some questions about Rogue One

[Mage]

Nowhere in that article does it say they used footage from ROTJ in Rogue One.
The start of the article is about ROTJ and how they did cut footage from that movie that showed female pilots.

They misused the word cameo in the title.

I'll do a better search then, I know I read it somewhere.

 

[ScottJ85]

And the actor really shows his anxiety as the film wears on.

Ben Mendelsohn is a fantastic actor, no argument there.

 

[David cgc]

the Battle of Endor is very inconsistent when it comes to the use of footage and names applied to different characters in the footage.

On YouTube I saw a special feature from the blu-rays, I guess, that was the dalies of the background pilots from RotJ, including all the deleted women (and a bunch of b-roll of rebels crewing the Falcon during the battle, as well as alternate versions of Ackbar's scenes in the battle replacing him with General Madine in case the Ackbar puppet didn't work), and they were all just reading off the same list of generic fighter-pilot dialog ("Cover me!" "I'm on the leader!" "Get clear, she’s gonna blow!" "I'm hit!"). Kind of a let-down compared to how the Y-Wing trench run manages to introduce three distinct characters and their dynamic (professional officer who cracks under pressure, fresh-faced kid who doesn't know anything, crusty veteran who isn't fazed by anything) before killing them all off in about 45 seconds.

Huh? Where did that fact come from? I've only ever seen reports about Red/Gold leader footage.
Some of the female pilots have entries in the Rogue One Visual Guide, and they appear to be new characters, with new publicity photos.

I've seen it said before, but I think it's a case of conflating details or making assumptions. The RotJ footage doesn't look anything like the R1 pilots, both in terms of how it was filmed, and the fact that the R1 cockpits are huge compared to the OT versions.