Advanced Training

[Captain Zymmer]

How many point on avergae does an advanced training package use to be made?

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[Capt.Hunter]

Not entirely certain, but I think it's 8 Development Points or 15 XP, roughly the same as Starfleet Academy Training. Each course generally lasts 4 to 8 weeks.

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[Captain Zymmer]

Cool, thanks dude.

Next stop "Starfleet Top Gun Academy" But I just found out it was moved in the real world from Miramar...

Any ideas where it should be now?

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[ghosty]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Captain Zymmer:
Cool, thanks dude.

Next stop "Starfleet Top Gun Academy" But I just found out it was moved in the real world from Miramar...

Any ideas where it should be now?
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The Naval Fighter Weapons School ("Top Gun") is currently located at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada. The move happened some years ago when the navy consolidated its advanced tactical schools in one place. They chose Fallon probably because they can access the Air Force training ranges at Nellis Air Force Base, home of the Air Force's own Top Gun school, RED FLAG.

However, there's nothing to stop you from putting Starfleet's Top Gun at an space station called Mirimar Station.

[Captain Zymmer]

Maybe I could put it at Tycho Alley or some such...

A nice Regula Style station

Tycho is a moon of Jupiter?

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[Commodore 2]

The next thing you do is to transfer a Tom Cruise-like pilot to the facility.......

[Captain Zymmer]

MAVERICK!!!!!!!!

[Captain Leana Craig]

Originally posted by Captain Zymmer
MAVERICK!!!!!!!!

Next you will have to have a RIO that looks like Anthony Edwards with the callsign of "GOOSE"

Also how about the moon Callisto, its crater covered and the 100km+ valhalla crater would be a great range.

[Captain Zymmer]

Originally posted by Captain Leana Craig


Next you will have to have a RIO that looks like Anthony Edwards with the callsign of "GOOSE"

Also how about the moon Callisto, its crater covered and the 100km+ valhalla crater would be a great range.

What is a RIO?

And which planet has the moon Callisto? Sounds good, just need to know where it is

[Phantom]

RIO= Radio Intercept Officer. He handles all the electronics in a two seater (Tomcat and the like), while the jock in the front seat concentrates on keeping the plane airborne.

As to the moon...Not sure.

[Captain Leana Craig]

Originally posted by Captain Zymmer


What is a RIO?

And which planet has the moon Callisto? Sounds good, just need to know where it is

A RIO stands for "Radar Intercept Officer" the guy in the back seat of an F-14. He works the radar and missile guidence.

As for Callisto, go here its a great place for a holiday (who needs Risa) "This advertisment was brought to you by Jupiter Dreams Inc"

http://www.nineplanets.org/callisto.html

Oh and Valhalla is 3000km

[Paul]

Callisto is moon of Jupiter. You could post your trainging facility there, and have them perform low-orbit, high-powered flight plans around Io (dodging the various sulphur volcanic butsts would be entertaining...)

[ghosty]

As a final exercise they have to manuver down a long valley being shot at by gun turrets at the time to hit a 2 metre wide target with photon torpedoes.

No...don't kill me...please...

[Lancer]

Why do Starfleet facilities tend to be located in the Sol system? Okay, SFHQ is on Earth, but if you are looking for some interesting stellar phenomena to race a fighter around our solar system is downright boring.
Plus, with the Academy flight range at Jupiter (or was it Saturn?) nearly every Starfleet pilot allready knows the setting and some of it's challenges from his basic training.

At least move your flight school out to Alpha Centauri: Twin suns, an M-class planet with rings and more asteroids, gas giants and moons than you can shake a stick at (if you go with Planets of the UFP ).
Or even better, make up a system inside a nebula. Lot's of "Where is he, can you see him" scenes a la ST:WoK.

[Robbert Raets]

Callsigns: 'Ugly Duckling'
'Moose'
'mo' Vorik' (half-Vulcan relative...)
'P'tagh' (son of a Klingon war veteran)


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