[h2]John Lockman[/h2]

[quote=@Pragia12]
Ginny bobs her head along "Even better."
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John could admit his curiosity was piqued at what made a test pilot better then a designer. When, the slowly becoming familiar, clumping of an environment suit preceded Fihlyn into the bay. 

The Quessir crew member giving an energetic wave that looked at odd with the clunkiness of the suit. John wondered if the clunkiness was inherent to its design or if its user had any effect. A minor detail possibly but one that he might-

[quote=@Bentus] 
“I see that good progress is being made on your shuttle?” Fihlyn inquired, peering curiously at the scattered detritus and tooling that lay around the two humans. “I am glad that you were able to recover it. Attempting to land the ESS thirty-eight-twenty-two, dash-zero-one on a poorly surveyed planetary body would have been…” She paused for a moment, frowning as she tried to think of the right word in the Edenite tongue. “...unfortunate?”

Fumbling briefly with the tablets that she’d brought with her, the Quessir continued excitedly. 

“I do not mean to interrupt your work, but I have made progress on an expedited training program for piloting the ESS thirty-eight-twenty-two, dash-zero-one. With so few of the original command crew remaining, it would be prudent to have redundancy for piloting and navigational needs.” 

Managing to get her glove-constrained fingers around the top-most tablet, Fihlyn offered it to the pilot. 

“I decided that the first chapter of the course should focus on general vocabulary and terms related to piloting this class of vessel. Much of it should be easy review for you, I am sure, but there will still be a test…once I have finished writing it.”
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John looked at the tablet with the dawning horror of old memories overshadowing the new. 

'[i]Dear stars....I'm back at Flight School.[/i]'

The tablet displaying neatly made modules of words and concepts that looked like a home produced textbook. Lacking in budget but not in data or quality of content. Definitely not lacking for content. Rows and rows scrolling past his eyes before he thumbed the pad off and slipped it into his flight suit's thigh pocket. 

"I'll definitely give it a gander miss." His smile the forced, easy going one he normally adopted when trying to wheedle some design change out of the brass. "At least after I finish puzzling this out." 

He cast a thumb at the engine. 

"Debris was a silver bullet. Hit a part that this model exclusively had. New engine design and all that." His tone exasperated as the pilot knelt down. Sorting among the jumble of spares for something he could cobble together or salvage into an amalgamation of a part.