[gurps] Starship Troopers, Ch. 2-5

[Jeff Wilson]

From: "Evyn MacDude" <infojunky at ceecom.net>
Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
> 
> 
> Yes but they are far beyond the average. even for military pilots.

Please pay attention, I specified "a top-notch aviator." The girls 
flying the MI's dropships and pickup boats are literally *the* *best* 
pilots the human race has to offer, because the MI fights under the 
worst conditions the enemy has to offer.

Johnny himself has been flying his personal helicopter around the world 
  during his later years of high school enough that when he's shipped 
from the Phillipines to Canada he only mentions something about "the 
northern prairies" but he's still considered underprepared for any kind 
of naval piloting.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >