[gurps] Starship Troopers, Ch. 2-5

[Zan Lynx]

Evyn MacDude wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:46, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
> 
>> It is emphasized that the MI suits amplify normal physical activities
>> rather than give new ones. This lets squaddies qualify and perform
>> effectively after a few hundred hours of advanced training after boot,
>> instead of the thousands of hours in the air it takes to train a top-notch
>> aviator.
>>
> 
> Jeff, just to point a weakness in this line of argument, career flight time
> for a navel aviator usually is only around 1,500 hours of flight time.
> Flight time accumulated at TopGun is in the 10s of hours not hundreds.
> 


Does that include simulator time?

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