A Brother's Debt
“The computer told him the estimated flight time was a few hours short of seven days, a much longer solo flight than any he had endured before.
As a fighter pilot the longest time he had spent away from the battle-cruiser he was based on was a day, and mostly his patrols had been no more than eight hours. Patrols had lasted longer when he switched from fighters to scout ships, occasionally even as long as a week, but he had flown with a co-pilot then, which had made all the difference.
When the ...autopilot had registered the course Step ran his eyes over the rest of the equipment on the bridge. It was familiar in use, if not make or design, and he had little trouble determining that all of the ship’s systems were functioning within acceptable limits, if only just in a few cases. He made a mental note of the systems that looked to be in most need of maintenance and then left the bridge.
He walked down the passage to the far end and entered the crew rest area; from there he walked round to the galley.MoreLess
As a fighter pilot the longest time he had spent away from the battle-cruiser he was based on was a day, and mostly his patrols had been no more than eight hours. Patrols had lasted longer when he switched from fighters to scout ships, occasionally even as long as a week, but he had flown with a co-pilot then, which had made all the difference.
When the ...autopilot had registered the course Step ran his eyes over the rest of the equipment on the bridge. It was familiar in use, if not make or design, and he had little trouble determining that all of the ship’s systems were functioning within acceptable limits, if only just in a few cases. He made a mental note of the systems that looked to be in most need of maintenance and then left the bridge.
He walked down the passage to the far end and entered the crew rest area; from there he walked round to the galley.MoreLess
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