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Flight and Flying [Friday morning, Flight Club shed]

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...]
multiplez: (Z with car.  Fear!)

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Z Delgado
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[personal profile] multiplez 2006-07-28 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
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...
multiplez: (bad hair day)

Re: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[personal profile] multiplez 2006-07-28 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
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.

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[identity profile] twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
Zack Addy.

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[identity profile] x5-alec.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
Alec

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[identity profile] twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
Zack flailed only a little as he took control of the joystick.

Hopefully he wouldn't crash it today.

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[identity profile] twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 08:57 am (UTC)(link)
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: Practice run

[identity profile] x5-alec.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
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: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[identity profile] x5-alec.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
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.

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[identity profile] untouchableskin.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
Marie D'Ancanto

Re: Practice run

[identity profile] untouchableskin.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
Marie's practice run was pretty slow because that whole passing out thing kind of worried her.

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Jude Lizowksi

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[identity profile] dude-its-jude.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

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Molly Hayes

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Dean Winchester

Re: Exercise 1: Air to Surface

[identity profile] dude-its-jude.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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Jaye Tyler
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[personal profile] fates_jaye 2006-07-28 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Jaye grabs the joystick not dirty, and looks amazed anyone's willing to let her shoot things. Even simulated things.

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