sith_happened: (Anakin: *goes a smiting*)
Anakin Skywalker ([personal profile] sith_happened) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2009-05-26 12:04 am
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Flight & Flying [Tuesday, May 26, 4th period]

The flight shed, when the students entered, would be eating food-off-the-floor levels of spotless and still smell faintly of bleach.

And Anakin would be a barely contained bundle of rage. "Today," he spat, flinging his hand toward the simulator, "we work with the F-16 Flying Falcon, one of the aircraft used by the militaries of this world. It's adequate 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--carefully, despite his obvious rage--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 fairly self-explanatory. You'll also be dealing with the Earth's gravity, so if you make the plane go up too quickly, the machine's been equipped to simulate G forces, so you'll pass out or throw up. If you throw up, you and Sheppard will be cleaning that up," he growled.

He clapped his hands together. "Begin! Sheppard, get in the Force-bedamned sim."
momslilassassin: (Ben: zomg!)

Re: Sign in [5/26]

[personal profile] momslilassassin 2009-05-26 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Ben Skywalker
weetuskenraider: (Um WHOA)

Re: Sign in [5/26]

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-05-26 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Tahiri Veila
momslilassassin: (Ben: Ben says "um wtf")

Re: Practice run

[personal profile] momslilassassin 2009-05-26 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Ben sat down in the cockpit seat, pulled on the silly helmet, glanced around, frowned and then tapped the microphone on. "Okay, so how do I make this thing go?" he asked.
momslilassassin: (Ben: gawking)

Re: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[personal profile] momslilassassin 2009-05-26 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
After getting used to the way the plane worked in the practice run, Ben was feeling pretty confident about trying to get close to Anakin's numbers on the air to surface run.

It was only after he came within inches of clipping his wing against the mountain range while trying to hit the fourth target that he realized just how good his grandfather was.

Damn, that was annoying to realize.

Ben hit all five targets and didn't explode. He clocked in a time of 9 minutes flat.
weetuskenraider: (Um WHOA)

Re: Practice run

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-05-26 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
No. No, Tahiri hadn't woken up naked in this room.

She did look awfully nervous when she climbed (yes, there was scrambling, hush) into the cockpit and stared at the instrument panel.

"I can do this, right?" She studied the panel a little more intently and wished her voice didn't sound so shaky. "Right. Yeah. Okay."

She hoped.

Re: Sign in [5/26]

[identity profile] asgardcreated.livejournal.com 2009-05-26 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Jon O'Neill

Re: Practice run

[identity profile] asgardcreated.livejournal.com 2009-05-26 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Jon doesn't need the explanation and is practically bouncing in place as he climbs in the cockpit. He had the helmet on in a matter of two seconds and was starting up the sim.

"Do I get extra points if I shoot down Sheppard?" Because he would have so much fun doing it.
weetuskenraider: (Um - Rubbing Neck)

Re: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-05-26 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
The first few minutes of Tahiri's run were pretty shaky, practice run notwithstanding, but she was starting to get the hang of this whole flying thing (at least if she relied on the Force to help her out, since she wasn't under any illusions that her skills on their own would get her through this), and she wasn't even trying to beat anyone's time.

She had to make several passes to take out the first few targets, but 16 minutes and 43.5 seconds later she'd made it through the run, and wasn't even flying too badly by the end of it. She'd never call it flashy, but it was actually decent except for a few choppy bits.

Hey. That was even better than she'd been hoping for, and she couldn't help being a little pleased with herself when she climbed back out of the sim.

Re: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[identity profile] asgardcreated.livejournal.com 2009-05-26 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
This was nearly the same as the sims that the Air Force used, and Jon was use to those. They were more fun to do in a 302 though.

He didn't crash and did it less than ten minutes. He probably could have done it faster, but it was having too much fun doing barrel rolls and loops.

Re: Sign in [5/26]

[identity profile] kestrelswolf.livejournal.com 2009-05-26 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Image

Re: Sign in [5/26]

[identity profile] guardianborn.livejournal.com 2009-05-26 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Rose Hathaway
Edited 2009-05-26 04:44 (UTC)

Re: Exercise 2: Air to Air

[identity profile] asgardcreated.livejournal.com 2009-05-26 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, doesn't this bring back memories," Jon muttered as he started the second exercise.
weetuskenraider: (Looking Over Shoulder)

Re: Practice run

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-05-26 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
"It's the remembering-about-gravity part that worries me," she admitted.

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