fandomhigh | Flight Club, Monday, 4 pm in the flight shed

It's the first time Aeryn's opened the flight shed herself, and she tries not to think too much about that as she sets up and waits for the others to arrive.

When they do, she greets them with, "If you don't already know me, my name is Aeryn Sun, I'm former military, spent a good part of the last three cy- years piloting a fighter ship and was doing so as late as this February. You've all shown at least a little interest in flying and learning how to do it, so this would be the place for it. Now I'd like you all to introduce yourselves, tell me what experience you have, and if there's anything in particular you'd like to study here, I'll see what I can do to get it."

She gestures to the simulator and says, "You'll also be able to get into the simulator this time. It's called a Prowler, and this is what I'm used to flying. It's used for reconnaissance and battle, and you'll even be able to operate weapons systems. Luckily you can't really shoot anything, no matter what your experience. If you need me for anything, I'm around."

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Rubbing her head, Evie nods very very seriously, and carefully follows Aeryn's directions. Her hands are shaking so much that the nose keeps dipping. "This is *much* harder than I thought it would be," she confides. "Not that I thought it would be easy, of course. And why is that light blinking?" She pointed at one above her, and accidentally hit a switch. "Eep."

Aeryn hits the button quickly before she she can figure out what was just pressed. "Just a tip? If you have to ask 'What does this button do?' ask before you hit it."

"Ohh, right." Evie looks abashed, and hunches over the controls, still rather exhilirated but definitely calming down a little. "Should we aim for somewhere? Do I land it? Or does it just stop? Luke said I couldn't crash it if I tried."

Aeryn's torn based on the fact that should she actually get Evie in a real ship, she doesn't want to encourage tricks. On the other hand... "If you have to stop for some reason, it can be shut down on its own. However, if you're done and you want to try landing, you can just..." And she gives another short explanation of how to land in the simulator.

Evie whispers the instructions under her breath as she slowly, caaaaarefully goes through shutdown. Slooooooowly.

Eventually, they coast to a stop. Evie sits there, and then shrieks. "I DID IT! Ow. Oh, ow," holding the elbow that she'd banged into the canopy.

Next week Aeryn's bringing padding, or bubble wrap or something. "Good job, Evie."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you Aeryn! That was wonderful! Stupendous! Oh," Evie nearly falls out of the Prowler, and staggers a couple steps. "I'm so glad I came today!" Another staggering step, and she sits down hard on the ground. "Ahem. Right. Ohhh. Yay!"

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