Advanced Flight Maneuvers
| Naval Ancillary Skill | |
| Advanced Flight Maneuvers | |
| Passing achieves: | |
| Advanced piloting skills | {AFM} |
| Prerequisite for: | |
| Top Gun, Tier 2 (TIE Advanced pilot) | |
The Skill[edit]
Before your character is regarded as anything other than a new green pilot (in other words, before you may - by yourself - successfully engage multiple enemy starfighters at once in any story posts), and before you complete the second tier of the Top Gun certification track, you must demonstrate that your character has the basic knowledge necessary to survive a one-versus-many dogfight. This knowledge (and its practical application) is known as the "Advanced Flight Maneuvers" Basic Ancillary Skill, in VEN role-playing parlance. You demonstrate this knowledge (and thereby earn the "Advanced Flight Maneuvers" Ancillary Skill for your character's Bio) by completing the following mission.
The Mission : "Pick up your visual scanning."[edit]
Write a short story (750 words, minimum) in which your character pilots a VE-standard TIE Interceptor against three (3) hostile X-Wings. VENA is especially interested in seeing verisimilitude (realism) for this skill: your goal is survival, more than the destruction of all three hostiles. When complete, post your short story to a new thread in the Navy ComNet (making sure to mark it as a Mission for the Advanced Flight Maneuvers Ancillary Skill), and wait for review. If a VENA staff member deems that you have satisfied all the mission parameters, you will have earned the Ancillary Skill "Advanced Flight Maneuvers" for your character, and that character may then use the associated knowledge in future story posts.
Good luck.
Links and Resources[edit]
Here is a comprehensive list of sites with information useful for fighter command. Read the information on them, learn it. It could keep you - and your squadronmates - alive.
