Quick Training.

[Michael Scott]

Hey I need a quick rundown of how to be a fighter pilot. It's for the new timeline and I have no knowledge of how to be a jock. So for the sake of two awesome characters, please help me.
Quick background: Roger Cantrell is a retired B-wing pilot. What would he know in terms of being an instructor/expert pilot?

 

[Veritas et Lux]

tactics, maneuvers. in all seriousness i would make him have a good engineering sense and be able to fix while flying. just saying, it happens in the movies it should happen in rp.

you should be able to legitely know some maneuvers in rp even if you have to look up on google actual fighter pilot maneuvers. i would also try and find somewhere on the web where it explains what does what on a fighter in space. like google: x-wing parts, tie fighter how it works , or some kind of keywords such as that. if you find a diagram that would be amazing.

Also if you want, I'll roleplay a fighter pilot battle with you right now in this thread. ;)

heh. no god-modding. we can make up characters right now and not really write out profiles for them right this second.

 

[Michael Scott]

Sounds great! Yeah I know about few manuveres but I didn't know they'd work in space or not. It would be good to practice.

Kent was flying his N2 starfighter en route to Coruscant, he avoided hyperspace due to his R4 unit's calculations; supposedly there was a meteor shower in the system. In order to warm up with his flying skills, Kent purchased old space junk and began practicing his battle skills. He began by weaving in and out of the junk, and then he turned around and flew inside of the junk; until he saw another starfighter coming towards his position; it was his friend who promised to improve his skills.

 

[Veritas et Lux]

(OKAY COOL, im honestly going to just use dr.rashesh he's fun to play with and you'll have an idea of character personality but otherwise hes not a scientist but a pilot.)

Dr.Rashesh had his hands off of the controls, for now. He was ready to meet up with the new guy, he remembered when he was littler and how nobody really cared for practice. They were all worried about the booze and the woman, maybe that's why he was one of the only ones left alive from back than. Oh well-

He was on approach to the asteroid field where he was to meet up with the new trainee. The forecast had called for a light asteroid shower today, perhaps they'd have a good view of it while sparring. As he approached the array of rusted irons and scrapped parts he disengaged the auto-pilot from his protocol droid- the Selkath had built him himself.

"Okies now uh bud. You don't have ta' drive for me no mores." he glanced out the window of his Aurek-Class Tactical Strikefighter and shot the droid a wink.

As his hands clutched the controls he throttled down to idle and pulled up aside Kent as the fighter slowed to motionless.

"Breaker-Breaker, Kent do you copy?" he was joking of course. He didn't care for protocol when it wasn't necessary, but it would be good practice for the kid.

"Looks like you'sa lost out here all by youself, sa." he chimed over his comm-link.

'Let's not waste no time heya. LEt's get straight on with the hod-core stuffs, okies?
Use'a you droid for the weapons, we aren't really shootin' each otha' out of our fightas'.

Rashesh pressed some buttons on his terminal and switched a couple lighted switches. He disabled his lasers and uplinked the droid to his trigger control with a few more taps on the terminal.

"You'sa ready? Nah. Doesn' mattah." - and with that he moved throttle to full and sped off into the asteroid field, avoiding the harsh metals that Kent had left floating around.
The fighter responded to his hand moving upwards on the throttle so instantly, so smoothly. These new fighters had so much umph in their engines. It was like driving a buff, muscly piece of metal.

 

[Peat Stavers]

if u want tips on attitude of a pilot, watch movies like top gun. Could help. or just look at how han solo does it. (lol on last sentence)

 

[Matt]

Yeah, don't watch Top Gun.

Read the X wing books, everything you will need to know will be in there.

 

[Foxy]

The first few chapters of I, Jedi have a couple of great fighting scenes in them too.

 

[Green Ranger]

Read the X wing books, everything you will need to know will be in there.

^

 

[Empress]

also if you can find an emulator, and a cheep $2 joystick from a thrift store or something check out: X-wing ( and it's add-ons), TIE Fighter ( and it's Add-ons...and it has thrawn so epic) , X-Wing VS TIE Fighter, or X-wing Alliance.

 

[Rom]

I'm kinda surprised no one had posted this yet...

But in all honesty, Xwing books are amazing plus some good scifi books non star wars related can give you a good idea about how manuevers are explained. Rogue Squadron on the N64 taught me all I needed to know..

 

[Peat Stavers]

Yeah, don't watch Top Gun.

Read the X wing books, everything you will need to know will be in there.

I was just talking about a fighter pilot's attitude. That is usually a key in creating a good pilot. That's all im saying.

 

[Cobalt]

Also, don't bother looking up real space maneuvers because 90% of the stuff in the movies can't be done without air resistance and/or makes no sense to do in space. Just sayin' if you want it to be cool don't make it like real space travel.

 

[Natise]

but in space there is no direction, any maneuver could be pulled off.

 

[Lucid]

there is direction relative to two bodies and the respective plane their on...

 

[Cobalt]

It could all be done, technically, but stuff like TIE fighters banking into turns just doesn't make any sense. Planes do this because they're directing some of their lift (from air flowing around the wing) horizontally, using it to turn the craft.

Without air, the only reason I can think of that you'd want to do this is that the rear thrusters of the fighter can't change direction, and there are thrusters on the under-side as well, which point directly 'down' relative to the craft.

It's in the movies because it looks good. It would actually look quite robotic and boring if maneuvers were done in a realistic spacey way.

All this nerding I'm doing is basically to say: I wouldn't worry about realism. Worry about how it fits in with canon maybe. Even then, don't worry too much- I think we can stretch our imagination into believing that piloting has changed a little in the thousand years since Yavin.