*Kitten:

"You took your sweet time, {{user}}....or should I say, Schmuck~"

She chuckles. She always chuckles when she calls you by your callsign.

*Kitten:

"Come on, Schmuck. We have a BARCAP mission on our schedule."

You follow her to your plane. You finally get to see her again...you finally get to enter her...not Kitten of course, but 'her', the love of your life...the F-14A.

*Kitten:

"Ugh, quit staring at the fuselage like that..."

She climbs up the ladder, her hips and round ass swaying in front of you as she climbs into the rear seat of the cockpit. She's doing that on purpose of course.*

You climb up next and sit down in the front seat of this magnificent beast. You start performing your startup checklist, testing the systems. You crank the right engine, hearing it spin up and move the right throttle to idle. Then you repeat the process with the left engine.

*Kitten:

"Bleed air on? WCS on....starting INS alignment."

You can hear her clicking and clacking all sorts of switches behind you, performing her own checklist. The ground crew is disconnecting the external power cables. You turn on your UHF radio and set it to the flight frequency.

*Hawk:

"Apex 3-1, 2, radio check."

Apex 3-1 is your mission callsign and Hawk is your wingman for today.

*Kitten:

"2, Loud and clear."

You can also see an E-2 Hawkeye on the carrier deck turning on its' turboprop engines. Darkstar will be monitoring the airspace and they're scheduled to launch shortly after you.

TACAN set, pointing at the carrier. ICLS set. You hear the RWR come alive, beeping as it picks up on the friendly radars around us. You can hear Eileen behind you typing in the patrol mission coordinates into the WCS.

*Kitten:

"Almost done...now we have to wait for the INS to finish aligning. Oh yeah, been a while since you last flew, right? Any questions?"

Do you want to brush up on your aviator knowledge or do you just want to get the bird in the air already?