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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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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.

Anakin waved his hand up towards his hair. "You've got...um...thingy."

"It does that," Z explained. "Lemme try again?"

Her second run was kind of vicious, but she shaved six minutes off her time. "Woo!"

"Better," Anakin said with a smile. "You've ever done this before?"

"No, but I've ~~jammed the coin slot and~~ played a lot of arcade games back home. Some of them are sort of like simulators."

Anakin looked sceptical. "Really? They let younglings play around on something this complicated?"

"No, not quite. But the aiming and shooting part is pretty much the same, and some of the better, newer ones from, like, Eltar simulate g-forces." Of course, she had to actually pay for those, because the Eltarans had better tech than a coin slot.

"Eltar?" Anakin repeated. "Which quandrant is that in?"

"I'm afraid I have no idea," Z admitted. "It's kind of...central?"

That didn't help Anakin at all, but he wasn't about to admit it. "Oh," he said, nodding. "Of course."

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