<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/b7/CmdrNomuraMacross2032JPG.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Cmdr. Hitoshi Nomura<br/><strong>Date:</strong>March 12, 0900<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Fighter Base, Training Room II<br/><strong>With:</strong>T'chak<br/><hr/>The faintest trace of a smile graced Commander Nomura's face as T'chak strapped himself in. The man was as new to veritechs as a baby, but he was not new to piloting. "Alright. What you see before you is a VF-5 cockpit, but the differences to the One are small. And there are no differences to the stick and throttle. Those are what concerns us today."<br/><br/>While the VF-5 had quite different performance characteristics to the VF-1, most of the actual handling of the plane, the firing of thrusters and maneuvering jets was handled by the craft's computer that translated pilot input into physical action. Pilot input could be handled by the same controls in both planes, therefore both used the same controls. It made both manufacturing and training easier.<br/><br/>"Now, there's a whole lot of buttons on both stick and throttle, but once you get a hang of those, you know all the essential controls. Everything else is something you will need to get to grips with eventually, but most of the time you will be able to fly your plane with what you have there on the controls under your fingertips. Now, left hand on the throttle, right hand on the stick. Just wiggle them around, pull back, push forward, move them around a bit. You can adjust the... hardness of the controls with these knobs, here and here." He pointed at the small knobs at the base of both throttle and stick.<br/><br/>"Give it a try and experiment with the settings till you find something that feels right, something that doesn't require too much force, but just enough resistance that you can feel what you are doing without looking."<br/><br/><hr/>Image of cockpit controls (http://www.macross2.net/m3/macrossdyrl/vf-1a-fastpack/vf-1-dyrl-cockpitcontrols.gif)