fandomhigh | Flight and Flying [Friday morning]

The flight simulator looked radically different than it had last week.

For one thing, there was only one. It was also longer, sleeker, and painted maroon and white.

Anakin leaned up against it, waiting for the class to arrive. When they came in, he put the box of cookies from J,GoB on a table and turned to face them.

"This is the training sim for the Delta-7 Aethersprite Interceptor," Anakin said, patting it. "It's better known as the Jedi starfighter. Today we're going to use it to practice flying in a zero-g environment."

He pushed a button and the door to the simulator swung open. "Because it's a trainer, it's designed for two people--a pilot and an instructor--to fit. The real things only have room for one being on the inside and an astromech droid," he looked at the class, "um, think of it as a robotic co-pilot of sorts who can get to mechanical problems while you're flying. For example, fixing shields that have been damaged by laser fire." He pointed at the empty socket on the simulator. "Obviously, I don't have an astromech with me, but the sim's been programmed to make up for that. And for very elementary maneuvers like we'll be working with today, you don't really need to learn how to work with the astromech."

He pointed into the inside of the cockpit. "There are a lot more controls on the starfighter than the podracer, obviously. Here you need to regulate atmosphere, gauge fuel and weapons' levels, as well as communications, landing gear and assorted other bells and whistles."

He smiled at them. "But don't worry too much--you're not going to be tested on this." He sat in the cockpit and ~~handwavily~~ showed them how to make the ship speed up, slow down, turn and spin. "Obviously, this moves much faster than the podracer," he said, "and the sim has been programmed with the grav you'd have in your cockpit, so if you spin yourself too fast, you will make yourself sick. And then you will be cleaning out the sim."

Anakin clasped his hands together. "Okay. You'll each get a chance to try the sim out to learn how it works. You'll be in a program set way out in space so there's nothing for you to hit if you can't figure out how to steer right away and stuff. Once you feel more comfortable, there'll be a choice of two courses to run through--one that's strictly testing you on mobility, the other than also allows you to use the laser cannons."

He smiled. "Have fun. Oh, and Cedric and Draco? If you could stick around after class, I'd appreciate it."

[OOC: ~~Wait for the OCD, plz...~~ Come play!]

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Cameron climbed into the sim and took a moment to familiarise himself with the controls. It's definitely more complicated than the podracer, but at least there's no wonky left control. Once he got more confident with it, he sped up the fighter and tried some more fancy moves.

He however hadn't realised that Barry had crawled into the cockpit with him so when he ended the simulation, Barry waggled out, holding his hands over his mouth and ran off looking decidedly green.

Anakin watched the gnome run past him, eyebrows raised. "Land based species, I'm guessing?"

"Yeah, I think so," Cameron watched as Barry disappeared behind a corner. "I'd almost feel sorry if he hadn't kept me awake with his snores the entire night."

Anakin grinned. "Then by all means, feel free to shake him up some more. Snoring should be punished."

"Sounds like an idea," Cameron grinned.

Barry waggled back into the room, still looking very pale.

"Ready for another run?" Cameron asked him. Immediately, Barry put his hands in front of his mouth again and charged right back out again.

"Guess that's a no from the gnome," Anakin remarked.

"I think so too," Cameron agreed. "But not from me. That's one sweet fighter."

Anakin beamed. "Thanks. The real thing's better, of course, but this comes pretty close."

"The real thing's always better," Cameron nodded and smiled. "I'll take what I can get though."

"I'm working on that first thing," Anakin said, grinning.

"Oh?" That got Cameron's attention. "Are you converting a car this time?"

Anakin shook his head. "Trying to convince the Council to let me borrow an actual starfighter," he said, patting the simulator. "For those of you I'd actually trust at the controls, of course."

"Sweet," Cameron grinned. "Any luck?"

"Haven't heard one way or the other," he said. "I'm going to talk to Obi-Wan about it later this week, though."

"Cool, I'll keep my fingers crossed," Cameron paused and glanced at the simulator. "So uh... am I on the safe list?"

"I'll see how you do in the more challenging runs, but yeah, I'd trust you with the real thing," Anakin said.

Cameron beamed and possibly bounced at the prospect. "I'll give it my best shot."

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