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"Yup," Nova chirped, pivoting on her heels to fall into step beside Natalie, before adding, "I know, I'm surprised they actually let me off base too."

"Guess the guys running the simulators got the day off, so they couldn't strap me inside for the day," She joked. Well, [i]mostly[/i] joked. It wasn't an entirely inaccurate description of the past few weeks. She had spent a considerable amount of time in the simulators for the past few weeks, though she had been behind the controls of an actual Arsenal Walker more than once in live drills. They had only been older training models, ones which could take the inevitable collisions involved, but even just that provided some much needed hands-on experience.

The majority of her simulator time had been with Warriors. Ostensive she would eventually get behind the controls of a Raptor, simulated or not, seeing as that was what she had been brought onto the program for to begin with. That was still a ways away, even so, she was looking forward to the airshow later today for pretty much that reason.

"Any idea where we can get a good view of the parade?" She asked her fellow pilot, glancing over.[/color]