fandomhigh | Flight Club meeting (after Comparative Religions class)

Anakin stood outside the Flight Club shed and waited for the rest of the club to arrive. When they had, he cleared his throat and used the Force to amplify his voice over the chatter of the crowd.

"Today we're going to get to fly Senator Amidala's Baby." He smiled. "Some of us will be actually breaking atmosphere and flying the real thing. I'll be taking the first four students with real-time space flight experience who come up to me over to where the Baby's docked outside of town. The rest of you will get the try it in the flight sim, which has been programmed with the specs for a Naboo Royal Starship. It flies a lot differently than the Starfighter we tried last week--there's more mass to it, so it has a slower reaction time. There also aren't any weapons on the Baby, as it's a diplomatic vessel rather than a combat-equipped one."

He gestured at Cally. "Cally, one of our resident mechanical geniuses, is going to be manning the flight sim today. Try not to push all of the buttons and jam it up when you're flying it--it'll make both of us cranky."

He looked down at his notes. "For Parents' Weekend I've let the Student Council know that the flight sim will be open so you can show off your skills to anyone who might be coming. They'll also be welcomed to try it."

He folded up his paper. "That's it for now, unless you have any questions. Oh--I'm putting out a piece of paper for suggestions of aircraft programs to include in the sim--I don't want to keep using crafts that only I'm familiar with--it's not fair to the rest of you. Thanks!"

[OOC: Let me set up some anal-retentive comment threads before you come play.

ETA: All set up. Yay!]

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"Oh, crap, sorry." Rogue frowns. "You're doin' fine. Besides, it IS big. Senator Amidala's ship is huge."

"It's no problem," Kiki says. "But how am I supposed to land this?"

Kiki pulls at the controls, and initially, it seems to be going okay. Then a large flashing warning light appears on the screen, something about a hyper-acute angle of descent, and Kiki completely loses it. She pulls the craft's nose up too hard, and the warning lights double - there's another one flashing something about speed, another about fuel consumption, and there's about three or four proximity alarms going off.

"EEK!" Kiki has time to shriek, dropping the controls and covering her face. Peeking through her fingers, the simulator screen is filled with a video of a spectacular explosion - fireballs galore.

The screen goes blank for a moment, and then appears the words, "GAME OVER, MAN! GAME OVER!"

Kiki stares at it. "Oops," she repeats, faintly.

Hey, you did pretty good up until the landing. *smiles at Kiki* That's what the sim is for, so you can get used to that sort of thing without crashing and dying.

Climbing out of the sim on slightly shaky knees, Kiki answers, "Lucky thing, too. Professor Amidala would have my head - if there were any left of it after the crash, that is."

She smiles at Rogue and Cally. "Either of you like to give it a whirl?"

*steps back and shakes her head* Not me. I don't think I'd even get the takeoff right. I'm strictly the ground crew.

Rogue smiles nervously. "I'll try." She slides into the seat, gripping the controls with white knucles. "Alrighty then."

*hits the reset button*

You're ready to go. Remember, gentle is your friend.

Rogue swallows, and gently pulls the controls back, lifting the ship in the air. She's almost too gentle, and the ship bouces along the virtual runway before it actually start flying. She grins as it glides along the air.

"Holy shit!" Because the ship isn't high enough, Rogue has to dodge a tree rather roughly, rubbing the edge of the ship on the branches. She pulls up and heads up higher.

"First try," smiles Kiki admiringly, "nice job!"

"I've spent a lot of time watchin' people fly similar planes." She concentrates on the sim while she's talking. "It doesn't seem too hard, unless you're avoidin' enemy fire or somethin'."

You're doing great. Just keep an eye out for the evil penguins.

Kiki giggles. "Are evil penguins common when flying things like this?" she asks.

You should always keep an eye out for evil penguins. They're like ninja, you never know when they'll show up.

Rogue looks over at Cally and Kiki. "Evil Penguins? What the hell are you two..." CRASH!! While she was talking, she's accidentally nudged the controls down, and the ship exploded into pretty orange flames on the ground. "Oops."

*winces* Sorry. Didn't mean to distract you.

"And THIS is why I never got to fly the Blackbird," Rogue laughs. "Yeah, I don't so much blame Scott; it's his baby."

"Ooops...sorry," Kiki says as well. "But you were doing really well just from having watched it being done. That's really impressive."

Rogue blushes, "Thanks. I'll have to learn sometime, I guess, if I want to be on the team when I go back."

"I think you'll do pretty well," Kiki says confidently.

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