Flight and Flying [Friday morning, Flight Club shed]

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

The flight simulator had been reconfigured again--this time to something that should seem a bit more familiar to Earth-based students: The F-16 Flying Falcon.

Anakin clasped his hands behind his back and began speaking when the students had assembled in front of him. "This is one of the aircraft used by the militaries of this world," he began. "It's good 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 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 located in the same place. The F-16 just isn't as sensitive as the starfighter--you'll have to yank harder at the joystick to get the same reaction."

He was completely oblivious to any kind of innuendo that might've been found in that statement. "You'll also be dealing with the Earth's gravity, so turns won't be as fast, and if you make the plane go up too quickly, the machine's been equipped to simulate G forces, so you might pass out. That's not exactly what I had in mind for today, so please, um, don't do that."

[OOC: SP from me until around noon PDT...]

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Sign in

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Under each other not dirty...

Re: Sign in

[multiplez]

Z Delgado

Practice run

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

The weapons are simulated, the catharsis is real...

Re: Practice run

[multiplez]

After several minutes' practice, Z felt she'd gotten a pretty good feel for the controls. She'd at least figured out what made her feel like she was going to puke, and how not to do that.

And a couple of strafing runs seemed like an excellent form of stress relief right about now...

Re: Practice run

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

Zack flailed only a little as he took control of the joystick.

Hopefully he wouldn't crash it today.

Re: Practice run

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec was ready from the moment he saw what they'd be simulating today. Glad he was back at 100% for this workshop, he slid into the sim and took the controls like someone used to handling them.

The practice run was a tiny bit rough to begin with, but it was coming back to him quickly.

Re: Practice run

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie's practice run was pretty slow because that whole passing out thing kind of worried her.

Re: Practice run

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

There was one kid who held all the high scores for the Top M16 simulator. There was one kid who held the mall record for most times on the Pukemeister Coaster 3000 without yakking.

Jude was that kid.

Re: Practice run

[fates_jaye]

Jaye grabs the joystick not dirty, and looks amazed anyone's willing to let her shoot things. Even simulated things.

Re: Practice run

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

After spending some time getting used to the controls, Molly pushed the plane to the point where she started to feel lightheaded before backing off. Just so she would know how far she could go.

Flying and shooting went pretty well. She crashed when trying to land however. "Oops."

Re: Practice run

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge's practice run actually goes pretty well, and he manages to not pass out, so yay.

Re: Practice run

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Worrying about passing out, Alanna chose to go at an extremely slow speed again.

Re: Practice run

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

After some cajoling from Alec (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/955439.html?thread=50073903#t50073903), Dean reluctantly climbed into the sim and started his practice run.

His hands were sweaty and his heart was racing as he jerked the joystick hard through the maneuvers, trying to get his over with as fast as possible.

Gravity pressed him back into the seat as he took a turn probably too fast and he pulled hard back on the joystick to climb over terrain that seemed suddenly too close...

That was the last thing he remembered as the G-Forces were strong enough to force enough blood from his brain that he passed out.

Re: Practice run

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter climbed into the cockpit and after some minor difficulties managed to take off.

As was normal, as soon as he had a basic comfort in the plane, he started trying some tricks. Let's just say that if it weren't for the proportionate resistance to G-forces of a spider, he would have passed out a couple times.

Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

You are looking for five targets located in a mountain range. They vary in size from a several story-tall building to a small car. The average pilot can make it through the run in about 12 minutes.

Re: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[multiplez]

Z was kind of cranky when she made her first run. Her emotions affected her performance, however, and she finished the run in a little less than twenty minutes. "Darn it!" she said as she pulled off her helmet, revealing a truly spectacular case of helmet hair.

She kind of enjoyed the blowing stuff up, though. Reminded her of the abandoned warehouse district back home.

Re: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

Zack finished the run in a little over half an hour, but he at least managed to hit all the targets.

Of course he'd blown up half the mountain range as well...

Re: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec was halfway between treating this like a real mission and gleeing over the fact that he wouldn't be punished for doing whatever the hell he wanted.

So, because barrel rolls and loops were a lot of fun when you meant to do them, he managed a time of 11 minutes, missing none of the targets - though there was also a very sad mountain missing a large part of its peak for no other reason than YAY BOOM.

Re: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

The fact that he was actually pretty good at this stuff went a long way towards cheering him up after the Stealth and Deception debacle of Wednesday. One would barely know him from the mopey bummed out bro of two days before by the gleeful way he went about the strafing run.

Although he came within a few seconds of it, he just couldn't beat his time of ten minutes. And really, that mountain goat? Shouldn't have looked so much like a small car.

Re: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge actually wasn't too bad at this, finishing the run in just over ten minutes. Sure, Sky probably would have done better than Bridge if he were here. But he wasn't. So there.

Re: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Twenty minutes later, the targets had been hit, the mountain had holes in it, and Alanna was beginning to turn green. But at least she didn't run into the mountain!

Exercise 2: Air to Air

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Classic dogfighting. You are up against three airplanes that are heavier and less manueverable than you are, but they have longer-range weapons.

Try not to die.

Re: Exercise 2: Air to Air

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter promptly took to the simulated skies against the dastardly dogfighting drones. Relying on his super-powered conditioning to allow him to complete maneuvers that likely wouldn't be good for the health of a normal person or a real plane, Peter managed to shoot down two of the fighters before crashing into the third.

"Well, I got all of them," he said, stepping out of the simulator.

General chatting

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

While waiting for the sim or whatever...

Re: General chatting

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Oh hell no," Dean said when he saw today's assignment. The last couple of weeks he'd been able to get past the idea of flying because a pod racer and a space ship were more the stuff of video games than reality for him. But this was a fighter jet. A real plane. The kind that tend to go up in spectacular fireballs when they crashed.

There was no way he going to get in the cockpit -- even a simulated cockpit for this.

Talk to Anakin

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Mock him about the weekend and he'll chuck you into detention without blinking.

Re: Talk to Anakin

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

This was the first time Dean had seen Anakin since last Saturday and he couldn't tell if that was a good or bad thing. He went up to him before class.

"Hey," he said awkwardly, relieved at least to not see too many faded bruises on Anakin. "About last Saturday..."

OOC

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

...he really will throw you in detention. Ping me if that's what you had in mind.