Flight & Flying [Tuesday, June 9, 4th period]

[sith_happened]

Anakin was checking his chrono, then his comlink, as the students arrived. "Today we're flying capital ships," he said, flicking his hands toward the screen set up in the corner. "Specifically this or the first minute and a half anyway capital ship. It was called the Invisible Hand and when I was flying it, half of it had already broken up in the atmosphere, the rudder that steered the ship had been in that half, and the thrusters weren't firing enough to stop us. The equipment was also set up for a species other than human and I couldn't read the controls."

Anakin had landed anyway. He was just that good. There wasn't a pilot in a million that could replicate what he'd done.

"Since I was working under rather...strained...circumstances, we'll do something a little easier to live through," he said. "You'll have the entire ship, and the back half will be on fire. The controls will be set up for your species and you'll be able to read the controls."

Yes, he thought that was cutting them a break. Anakin was odd. "Begin!"

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Re: Practice run

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone scrunched up her nose. Well, it wasn't exactly configured for her species - she hadn't thought to bring her drugs - but she was originally human (even if she hated admitting it) and human-oriented controls would work fine.

"No neural interface?" she asked anyway as she settled herself in pilot's seat and started a checklist of her instruments. "I bet if you did a direct linkage, you could improve the response time, even on a big girl like this."

Re: Practice run

[sith_happened]

"The original pilots were droids," Anakin said, "so it pretty much was a direct linkage for them. I wasn't supposed to be flying the ship."

Re: Practice run

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone looked at him with something akin to horror. "Well no wonder the ship caught on fire," she replied. Since the only droids she'd ever really come across had been in sims generated by Anakin, this made perfect sense to Anemone; they were dumb and blew up, and that was about it. Anticipating freak events was very much not in their programming.

She muttered something soothing to the controls as she started the practice run. "Do droids do all your routine flying, or do people still run ships like this too?"

Re: Practice run

[sith_happened]

"It was on fire because we'd set it on fire," Anakin said with a tiny smile. "I wasn't planning on flying the kriffing thing. We were there for a rescue and extraction, except the people who ran the ship took all the escape pods."