Flight & Flying, Thursday, May 17, 2018

[sith_happened]

Anakin stood in front of the students gathered inside the Flight Simulator, smiling. "Hello, and welcome to Flight and Flying class. I am Anakin Skywalker, and I practically grew up flying in my home galaxy. I was a podrace champion on Tatooine when I was nine, and then flew countless combat missions before ending up here in Fandom. I'm hoping to be able to pass along my passion for going extremely fast and sometimes upside with all of you. We'll start off fairly easy today--" if you thought like Anakin, at least, "--but I'm afraid we do need to engage in the first week ridiculousness of names. Please also tell me a kind of ship you'd like to fly sometime this summer."

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Fly....X-Wings

[sith_happened]

Not just because they are super, super fun. Anakin gave everyone a quick rundown of how the controls worked for steering the ship and firing the weapons, reassured them that dying in the simulations was why new pilots practiced in a simulation at all, and then started up the trench they would be flying through and the ten targets they were aiming at.

Anakin's time getting through the simulation was 1 minute, 25 seconds. Anyone else with the Force or other enhanced relexes could probably do it in 2 minutes and some change, regular pilots would take at least 3 minutes.

[Mod how you run goes! There are a few steep turns through the run for maximum crashing opportunities!]

Re: Fly....X-Wings

[onefootoutthedoor]

Peebee crashed her first three attempts, all three in under a minute, because she’d been too busy examining the controls and trying to figure out the way the X-Wing worked to pay complete attention to Anakin’s instructions. Oops.

She made it all the way through the course on the fourth run, though she missed four of the targets and it took her about five minutes. Still. Victory!

Also, she was now trying to figure out if she could, uh, ‘borrow’ a real X-Wing sometime.

Re: Fly....X-Wings

[midichlorianfail]

Well, good to see controls hadn't changed that much in the time between Theron's and Anakin's.

Theron's time was decent. Nowhere near a Force users, but he didn't crash and it was clear he'd had at least some training.

Re: Fly....X-Wings

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine had flown TIEs, so starfighters weren't new to her, but this took a little getting used to. Also, it was really pretty neat.

She hit a respectable time. She wouldn't brag about it, but she wasn't disappointed, either.

Re: Fly....X-Wings

[misshapen_spark]

Yang's first two attempts had crashes as she got used to where everything was, and her third was a battered and bouncing off things precariously five-minutes.

Not too terrible!

After quickly walking it off she was back in the sim one more time, and managed a tighter run in three. Between being a fast learner and Huntress-in-training reflexes, she didn't do too badly at all.