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...]

Comments

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.

Re: Practice run

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin was a little wary after Dean's experience in the sim. "Nice work," he said finally. "Might want to slow it down a little going through some of those spins, though."

Re: Practice run

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I can take it," Peter said. "As long as the spinning stops somewhere before the ground, I'm good."

Re: Practice run

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin laughed. "That's a good rule," he said. "Because becoming a wet mark on the pavement is a stupid way to die."

Re: Practice run

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I've come close to that a few times. I'd rather not do so in something that would then explode me all over the city," Peter said.

Re: Practice run

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"There's paperwork," Anakin said, nodding.