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IMPERIUM OF OCTAVIUM · TOULOUSE AIRFIELD

THE IMPERIAL FLIGHT ACADEMY

Every pilot of the Imperium is trained and licensed here. Apply, learn the books, fly the test flight and the checkride in the Academy trainer, and earn the Pilot's Licence.

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The road to wings

Six steps, in this order and no other. The two flights are flown in game, at the Toulouse airfield, and marked by the game itself.

APPLYHere, on the site: why you want to fly, your branch, your hours.
SELECTIONAn instructor reads it and accepts or refuses you. You hear by Discord.
PHASE I · GROUND SCHOOLRead the three books, watch the films, pass the written examination: 16 of 20.
PHASE II · TEST FLIGHTIn game, alone, in the trainer: the circuit through the rings and a clean landing.
PHASE III · CHECKRIDEIn game, with an instructor: navigation, the low pass, the glide, the landing.
THE LICENCEThe Pilot's Licence of the Imperium, its number, its page and your wings in game.

The three phases

PHASE I · GROUND SCHOOLThe Flight Manual, the Rules of Engagement and the Air Regulations, each chapter with its film. Then the written examination on this site: twenty questions drawn from the pool, sixteen to pass, a new paper an hour after a failed one.PHASE II · THE TEST FLIGHTFlown alone in the Academy trainer at Hangar 7. Engine, taxi, take-off, the right-hand circuit through nine rings, the approach and the landing, stopped on the runway. The game marks it: 70 of 100 passes, and every ring, the landing and the stop are required.PHASE III · THE CHECKRIDEOpened by an instructor in the same server. The climb-out, a navigation leg far from the field, the steep turns, a low pass down the runway, and from the high key a glide with the throttle shut to a landing. The game marks it, the instructor signs it, and a pass issues the licence.

The books

THE FLIGHT MANUALHow to fly the aircraft of the Imperium: the controls, the instruments, the take-off, the circuit, the landing and what to do when it goes wrong. Phase I examines all of it; Phases II and III fly it.THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENTWhen a pilot of the Imperium may fire, at whom, and when he must not. Every licensed pilot answers for every round he fires.THE AIR REGULATIONSThe standing rules of the air of the Imperium: who may fly, what for, and where. A breach costs a pass or a licence, and the penal code applies besides.

The student pilot

An accepted applicant is a student pilot. His Student Flight Access Pass is live in game from the moment he is accepted: it opens the Academy trainer at Hangar 7 to him whatever his team, and it opens nothing else. A student pilot flies no fighter, no bomber and no transport until he holds his licence.

The trainer is a light single-engine machine with no guns, no rockets, no bombs and no flares. She is slow, gentle and forgiving: the stall comes late, the controls answer softly and she lands herself straight if you let her. She does not count against your daily aircraft and she cannot fly a route to another game.

A student pilot in the trainer is still bound by every Air Regulation. The pass is for training: circuits, the test flight, the checkride and an instructor's lessons. It is never for pleasure flights.

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