Thirty Days of Drabbles - Day Twenty-Two

[jeriendhal]

For chaypeta's prompt of "Skyler's first flying lesson"

The instructor hated training Ferin. You could never fault them for laziness, unlike some of the cublings he'd taught, but they just couldn't have the hunter's instinct that a true fighter pilot required. "All right, Cadet," he greeted laconically. "You go by a name or do I have to say 'Hey you' twenty times a session?"

"I'm Cadet Skyler, sir!" the purple haired Ferin said brightly, snapping off a salute.

"Okay, Skyler. What kind of aircraft are we looking at?"

"It's a Roanwing Aerospace TJ-16 atmospheric trainer, sir! It has two hydrogen fueled turbojets capable of 0.7 Kn thrust each with a maximum sea level speed of 430 kph and a range of 730 kilometers."

"All right, let's see you go through the take off checklist." They climbed aboard the small training craft and strapped in. The instructor listened carefully as Skyler went through the craft's startup procedure. The little grey fellow must have done his homework, for the engines started without so much of a cough of back burning hydrogen and he taxied it flawlessly to the end of the runway. "Very good, Cadet. Now what's the next step?"

Skyler turned his head back to face him briefly and grin. "We punch it!"

About thirty seconds later, once they leveled off, the cadet asked, "Are you all right, sir?"

"Just... revising... my opinion..." he gasped.

Comments

[lilfluff.livejournal.com]

Heh. A hunters instinct, or maybe just a sheer (insane) love of flight.

And of course you have to punch it. Otherwise you wouldn't get to be up in the air as soon. :)

[aynne-witch.livejournal.com]

and Skylar seemed so 'promisingly vulp' until Punch It! Poor instructor - hehehehehehehe