Actually, if he pulls a gun on Benson and so much as reminds the other pilots that they haven't been paid yet, you'll have the five pilots all pointing guns at Hedy and Benson. It's still quite some leverage; shooting Heinz would get both Benson and Hedy shot, and leave the rest of the gang with an airship at their disposal for fun and profit. I'd only assume neither would rather die than have Hedy change her way of hiring pilots; the Mortensen incident has left her in a weaker bargaining position.<br/><br/>It doesn't take a genius to work out that sending off all the pilots at once leaves the airship unprotected from ambush, which is a real risk flying as close to the Disputed Western Territories and Peoples collective as they are. Colorado itself is a pirate state. There were areas of peaceful airspace in Crimson Skies, but mostly in more or less nation states like the Republic of Texas or Hollywood with an air force that maintains air supremacy. Even without Sel Nar's ominous GM posts, I don't think the pilots would be keen to wander off on their own in order to prove their basic skills.<br/><br/>How many pilots would Hedy have run into who are completely incapable of flying to a simple map reference? Pilots who would rather intercept a zeppelin on the way to the map reference it's flying towards, rather than be kept waiting by an employer any longer who's yet to show them the money, on the other hand, well, that's practically to be expected.<br/><br/>In fact, here's an idea: why not have the zepp attacked by some mooks at this point, and have the pilots shoot them down? That should be enough to prove their prowess to Hedy without making an uneventful formality of another navigation exercise necessary, and I  think we'd all rather see some actual combat.