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Anakin Skywalker ([personal profile] sith_happened) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2007-05-31 10:49 pm
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Flight and Flying [Friday, 2nd period]

Anakin's mouth was set in a slightly harder line today than normal.

It had nothing to do with the new month.

And he wouldn't explain himself even if it did.

The flight simulator had been reconfigured again--this time to something that should seem a bit more familiar to Earth-based students: The F-16 Flying Falcon.

Anakin clasped his hands behind his back and began speaking. "This is one of the aircraft used by the militaries of this world," he began. "It's good in air-to-air combat as well as air-to-surface attack, can go more than 850 kilometers before it needs to be refueled and can withstand up to nine G's--pretty high tech for this world's standards."

He opened the simulator door and gestured to the controls. "As you can see, it's configured differently than the systems we've been using in the last few weeks, but the joystick and the trigger button are located in the same place. The F-16 just isn't as sensitive as the starfighter--you'll have to yank harder at the joystick to get the same reaction."

He was completely oblivious to any kind of innuendo that might've been found in that statement. "You'll also be dealing with the Earth's gravity, so turns won't be as fast, and if you make the plane go up too quickly, the machine's been equipped to simulate G forces, so you might pass out. That's not exactly what I had in mind for today, so please don't do that."

Re: Sign in [June 1]

[identity profile] tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
Luke Skywalker

Re: Practice run

[identity profile] tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
It took Luke a little bit to adjust to the pull of the gravity and the relative primativeness of the controls.

"It's like flying a Y-Wing," he complained. "Or a rock."

Re: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[identity profile] tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
Luke hit all of the targets, but it took him 8 minutes.

He was Not Especially Pleased with that, and waited impatiently for the rest of the class to go through the run to see if there would be time for another shot at the exercise.

Re: Talk to Anakin

[identity profile] tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
Luke spent most of the class giving his father slightly worried glances. The emotions were battened down a little too tightly to be entirely healthy...

Re: Sign in [June 1]

[identity profile] abhorsentobe.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
Sabriel

Re: Sign in [June 1]

[identity profile] imissmydolphin.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
Lucas Wolenczak

Re: Practice run

[identity profile] imissmydolphin.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
Lucas was more used to this. He hadn't actually been up in an F-16, but he had the simulator programs that he'd swiped from the Air Force and had a pretty good computer on which to run it.

Actually feeling the G forces was new though for this system. It was similar to some of the hyper reality computer games he'd played, but those weren't as good.

He felt queasy, but kept his stomach.

Re: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[identity profile] imissmydolphin.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 09:56 am (UTC)(link)
Lucas all targets and made it through in 15 minutes. He had to go back to hit the car.

Re: Exercise 2: Air to Air

[identity profile] imissmydolphin.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
Lucas died, but he managed to stay alive for 8 minutes before getting clipped and spiralling down to certain doom.

Re: Sign in [June 1]

[identity profile] ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
Naomi Wildman

Re: Sign in [June 1]

[identity profile] missed-the-gate.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
John Sheppard

Re: Sign in [June 1]

[identity profile] sixstandingby.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
Gavin Darklighter

Re: Practice run

[identity profile] sixstandingby.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
It took Gavin awhile to get used to the controls and, even then, he still flew sluggishly. The controls weren't that different but the gravity was and he couldn't quite compensate for that during the practice run.

Re: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[identity profile] sixstandingby.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
Gavin was still having trouble adapting to the gravity of the stupid jet so he almost missed the target. He managed to catch it and destroy it, finishing the course in 13:00.

Then, in a very mature fashion, he made faces at the simulator.

Re: Exercise 2: Air to Air

[identity profile] sixstandingby.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
Gavin managed not to die simply due to the fact that he was able to get the damn jet moving and rolling to get away from the weapons. Of course, he took a few glancing strikes but took out the fighters.

Afterward, more faces at the simulator.

Re: Sign in [June 1]

[identity profile] cantjossme.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
Mel Fray

Re: Practice run

[identity profile] cantjossme.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
Mel struggled to control her plane and managed to keep it up without crashing. YAY!

Re: Talk to each other

[identity profile] sixstandingby.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
Gavin was still making faces at the simulator.

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