Flight and Flying, Period 5, Thursday 6/19

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

The students would likely notice something very unusual about the Danger Shop today as they arrived. Most notably that it was empty. There wasn't any kind of ship anywhere in sight. There was nothing. Just Murdock with his arms crossed over his chest, looking rather devious.

"And now for something completely different," he droned. "You," he pointed towards the class at large, "will choose your own ships today. I recommend you pick something you're most comfortable with. Because we're going to crash those babies," he grinned deviously.

"The first rule of piloting, is any landing you can walk away from is a good one. So that's what we're going to do. Your primary goal is to make sure you get out safe. If you can swing it without getting a single scratch, even better. Second to that is minimizing the amount of damage inflicted upon your craft. If you ever wind up crashing in hostile territory, you want your craft to be repairable. Or at the very least, have enough working parts so you can retro engineer something else to escape in."

"How you choose to crash them is completely up to you. You can experience engine failure, extensive damage from an enemy craft, or," he winked at Reno, "you can just fly straight into a mountain. Once done, the Danger Shop will provide each of you with an outcome statistic and survival probability." Of course, the safety protocols were in place, so nobody would actually suffer any injuries, but Murdock thought it might be amusing to let them sweat that a bit. Make the whole scenario just that more believable.

"Alrighty kids!" he slapped his hands together loudly, "Let's get our ships and let's crash like you've never crashed before. Oh, and I should add, you'd better crash sooner rather than later. Take too long, and the program will kick in and throw something random at ya. Or heck," he shrugged, "just wait for it and see what you get. Could be a fun challenge," he grinned.

(ocd-edy! in a sec...)

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[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

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[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco

Choose your craft!

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

And boast how much better yours is than your classmates.

Re: Choose your craft!

[raspberryturk]

Reno, of course, chose a helicopter.

It was a thing. A Reno thing.

It was going to almost be a shame to total the poor thing, even if it was fake.

Re: Choose your craft!

[solo_sword]

The choice was easy: X-wing. However, considering that Jaina had once gotten hers blown up with her still inside it, she wasn't exactly thrilled about this one.

Re: Choose your craft!

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone was disappointed that there was no LFO to use, but not surprised. It was probably for the best, since the last (and only) time she'd crashed an LFO, she'd been in a coma for two days afterward. She'd find something else to play with.

Finally, she settled on the F-16 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16_Fighting_Falcon") she'd flown in Master Skywalker's class last summer. She liked this baby.

Re: Choose your craft!

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

Rodney decided to go with the stealth jet because it was cool. Also, he wasn't quite comfortable with the space going crafts yet.

Re: Choose your craft!

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John picked a nice F-16. He didn't look forward to crashing, no.

Re: Choose your craft!

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Kaylee warily went with one of the smaller components of her favorite kind of ship: a short-range shuttle (http://cernatent.com.au/catalog/images/10-02-2007_23.50.41-DH14977lg%20Inara%20Serra%20Shuttle.jpg) from a Firefly class transport ship.

She weren't too fancy, but she'd do just fine for her.

Re: Choose your craft!

[the_merriest]

Well. He said the ship they were most familiar with, right?

Rikku talked the Danger Shop into coughing up a nice copy of her favorite old clunker, the Fahrenheit.

Fly for a bit.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Before the proverbial crud hits the fan.

Re: Fly for a bit.

[raspberryturk]

It wasn't real flying. But it was flying a chopper. And that, my friends, was good enough for Reno.

Reno, who was totally planning on waiting until something random struck him down. It made things more interesting that way.

Re: Fly for a bit.

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

Rodney took his jet up but only stayed long enough to reach a certain altitude and speed. He had a plan.

Re: Fly for a bit.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

Okay, so the flying part he could get with.

Fast flying. Very very fast flying.

Re: Fly for a bit.

[solo_sword]

THe flight was easy enough. Jaina had far too much experience in one of these things, and she'd been running through simulations a lot. She just made sure to keep it harder on herself.

Re: Fly for a bit.

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone decided to take her F-16 out for a joyride, using the terrain the Danger Shop provided as an obstacle course.

Re: Fly for a bit.

[the_merriest]

Right, time to get back to steering something that handled like a tank. A grumpy tank, that couldn't turn even if you begged it.

Ahhh. Just like old times.

Crash!

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

How did you go out? Stuck in some trees or a fireball of doom? Mod your crash results.

Re: Crash!

[raspberryturk]

Reno was going to fly that chopper around until the danger shop threw something good and random at him.

It was a shame he wasn't expecting that giant foot to fall from the sky on top of him like that.

Probability of survival? Zero.

If asked later, Reno would probably tell you that he was not dead, he was pinin' for the fjords.

Re: Crash!

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

Once his jet was in the right position for what he wanted, Rodney cut off the engines. He attempted to angle his descent so that he could glide down and skid into a relatively safe landing. His main hope, after not sustaining any injuries to himself, was that the jet would be reparable.

It was good in theory. He just wasn't skilled enough to pull it off.

He did manage to hit the ground without turning into a fireball, at least. Sadly, both wings were ripped off the jet and, had the safeties not been in place, he would've had a few broken bones. On the bright side, the engine was intact.

Re: Crash!

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John couldn't bring himself to willingly crash of his own accord.

He could understand crashing when things went wrong, but he couldn't very well tell the machine how he wanted to crash when he really really didn't want to crash.

Or maybe he just didn't like being told he had to crash.

John landed the plane and survived.

Re: Crash!

[solo_sword]

Jaina ran through her course, keeping it nice and hard, but the thing was, she couldn't just let herself crash. It went against everything she'd ever been taught and after what happened at Sernpidal she really didn't want to chance anything like that in the middle of her workshop.

She landed her ship, a little relieved considering it was just the Danger Shop.

Talk to your TA

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Beg him to sneak you some booze because you'll probably want it once this class is over.

Re: Talk to your TA

[raspberryturk]

Reno totally came equipped with travel-sized bottles in the inside pockets of his jacket.

He had to fill that space with something, since he wasn't allowed to carry any weapons around.

Talk to Murdock

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Who will not give you booze no matter how much begging goes on.

OOC

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Murdock himself crashed over half a dozen times during the course of the show. Once due to a broken plane that he stole. Smart, dude. ;D