[gurps] Starship Troopers, Ch. 2-5

[Jeff Wilson]

From: Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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.

I was thinking of actual spacecraft pilots - US astronaut pilots require 
20 months of training *after* they've established candidacy with a 
minimum of 1000 hours as pilot-in-command of jet air craft. When the 
book was written, the Mercury program recruited exclusively from 
military test pilots some of whom had thousands more hours.

 > >
 >
 > Does that include simulator time?

I wasn't including any.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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