Updated the player list, Asklar is on there until I get 9 people sign up or he gets back, whichever. I need one more for the game ot be ready, 2 for it to start right away.
This will be answered in the game, but just to get it out of the way, you don't have heat seeking missiles on your planes yet. The flares are in case anything untoward might happen during the game. Heat-seeking missiles, for example.

I'm inserting myself into this game, guys, provided nobody posts before Monday.

Good, you can be the classical character that in the games appears in the tutorial and is extremely awesome but sometimes meets a premature death saving the protagonist.

I always feel sorry for that guy....

Yeah that's pretty much what I was going to be.

That means that if you save someone that someone will be the protagonist?

Totally attempting to get myself killed first chance I get.

I'm not all powerful, so don't try too hard.

"Welcome to the airfield, gentlemen. In this exercise we will be using our machine blanks with laser pointers to train ourselves in the art of controlling these stock planes. Try not to crash them, they have no safety features.

You are all inside your cockpits! After taking off from the runway in succession, you're all up in the sky. Your challenge is to fond and shoot each other to score the most points in the time limit (20 turns). You have no navigational equipment that you can use yet, so you must rely on what you can see, and a little alarm that tells you when you're being shot.

Since you have no idea where anyone is, what do you do? Refer to the first post for guidelines on how to control things.

>Increase speed to 50%
>Turn 45° up

Did I do it right?

Technically, that isn't a barrel roll.
>Throttle to 60%.
>Pitch up some 20 degrees.

Wait a minute, how do I turn to the left/right?

Throttle to 50%
Bank 10 degrees to the left

Look for other pilots out window