What's the point of a test pilot if you're just going to ignore everything he has to say about the mech he's testing?
>>14414837
> Want Logic and coherent in Muv-Luv.
You better watch other show anon
>>14414837
Back to your containment thread
>>14414837
Relative to everyone else, all Japanese pilots are veterans, so Bridges' comment there doesn't really hold any water.
Every formal organization in the Muv-Luv universe is run by complete idiots.
>japan
There you go
>>14414863
This cliche isn't remotely exclusive to Muv-Luv.
>>14414837
Gaijins and hafus will never comprehend superior Nippon engineering.
>>14414837
Because Yui is the worst character and a terrible human being.
>>14414837
It's his word against hundreds of others who've graduated, some of whom went on to earn veteran status.
If a friend who's renowned for being unable to take spicy food tells me that the new Thai place's spicy food is trash, I sure as hell ain't going to take his word at face value until such a time that I am actually able to try it out myself or another friend whom I know can take spicy food tells me that it's trash too.
That said, though, he was always going to be in for it, considering that Yewwy Chewwy got it into her head that he was a terrible pilot for relying too much on machine specs just from spectating at a PvP round and completely and obliviously torpedoed each other's first impressions by the end of their first episode together. Him starting out with the social tact of a brick didn't help matters.
>>14419866
>It's his word against hundreds of others who've graduated, some of whom went on to earn veteran status.
Again, if there's already been a decision made, then why even have the test pilot?
>>14419870
because business and manufacturing is full of inefficient hogwash
>>14419870
A test pilot is here to offer improvements based on real-time data and experience according to scenario. No matter how much of a straight upgrade something is, to the most blandest improved operational parameters with the least exotic construction methods and no dingdongs like stealth or enemy prediction or new black-hole engine, it's still going to need testing to be certified. That's just process and procedural matters. Shit fails because someone down the checkline fails QC; if that shit happens in the design phase, the period that sets the template for production, it will snowball into a trashed design and a complete waste of time and effort for everyone involved.
Thing is, instead of complaining about Yui's unrealistic expectations because of her racial bias (not that he knows it at any point in the story), or her turbobitch attitude, he spends his tutorial phase in the Fubuki learning close to nothing about the features of his impending assigned craft, probably except on how to hack it to his Eagle habits, then throws a tantrum when confronted with the 1C being miles ahead in how much worse it is. Rather than git gud at his job and make a name for himself as a jack of "trades", not just "trade", as TSF pilots ought to aspire to be, he calls their doctrine shit. He basically learns nothing during the learning phase and then blames his tools when they won't work like what he imagines them to be, instead of actually learning how they work.What's even more bullshit is how quickly he adapts after Episode 5, but that's not as important here.
The reception of narrative would be different if he was a troubled pilot returning from the European frontlines, but unfortunately, he's not.
>>14419870
Because you need someone to test it before you mass produce it and give it to your soldiers.
This guy is being a faggot and flying the thing wrongly, and blaming the machine for it.
>>14414837
Wasn't the whole point of that character that the machine was fine and it was his japanese spirit that was insufficient?
>>14414837
Why is it that in real life test pilots are among the best and most experienced, often having seen real combat while in anime, test pilots are fresh recruits or inexperienced pilots who have never seen action?
>>14420381
Bara men don't sell as much merchandise as smooth-jawed fuzzbutts.
>>14420381
You're watching the wrong anime.
Gundam treats their prototypes like one-of-a-kind superweapons, not prototypes.
>>14414837
The only part I didn't understand about the testing arc is that the entire time bridges is bitching, he's making it seem like the machine isn't good enough for him.
The throttle control, the turning ability, the dive recovery, all of it is too loose for Bridges. That one time he slams into a building because the TSF he's testing can't turn on a dime, he implies the F-22 could have made that turn at that speed easily. There's another time he slams into the ground because the TSF can't pull up in time and he again implies the F-22 could have pulled up after a dive of that height.
In which case, why didn't they listen to Bridges and upgrade the machine? Why not make it capable of turning on a dime at speed? Why not allow it to dive from thousands of feet straight down?
>>14421433
It can do those things, the issue is that in order to do this as well is it can the controls are very sensitive to allow for finer manoeuvring. The (Japanese) main cast pilots in Alternative manage with this just fine because they were trained with it, but Yuuya is used to machines with different handling.
Imagine playing a shooter game with differing mouse sensitivity. Higher means you can aim like greasy lightening, but it's conversely more difficult to aim exactly right first time without correction.
I'm sure he's right about the capabilities of the F-22, it outperforms most TSFs in the series, but the thing is that the machine he's flying is not an F-22 and was never meant to be, and despite that he's trying to pilot it like it was.
>>14421591
>Higher Sensitivity Controls with lower overall specs
That sounds like a deathtrap.
>>14421433
Most of his complaints amount to "I don't like how it works, it should be like this" without actually considering the fact that they aren't building a Japanese copy of a US TSF. Had they listened to his complaints, they'd be building an entirely different TSF, but that's not what the Japanese want or need or came to Yukon for. They want to meld Western tech into their Eastern design to see if they could make their CQC-focused doctrine better, not make a knockoff Eagle/Raptor. They already have Eagle technology, they don't need a repeat, and they have their own doctrine to follow.
In any case, the XFJ's entire point was to have American technology slapped on; the GE engines were in on the very first iteration of the prototype once they assembled it at Yukon Base. The TSF was redesigned for better control after Kamchatka - all these are on schedule. He's basically railing for nothing - Yui isn't in charge of the design specs, Japanese generals back at the homeland are, and Heinemann from Boening is the one heading the upgrades, the Imperial technicians are there to learn the know-how to service/fix future XFJ models, they're not there to edit the TSF's design on-site.
He's basically yelling for changes that would never be approved because it'll completely destroy the CQC focus of the XFJ, thus voiding the entire effort of an upgrade project, or were already in the pipeline anyways.
>>14421616
It's not a trade off. They have the best specs they're capable of engineering into them, it's just that that's not as good as the best American specs. The sensitivity is just an effort to squeeze a bit more performance from them, and it's not really that big a deal for their own pilots who, as mentioned, are trained on them from the start and don't seem to have any issue. They did have trouble adjusting to the sensitivity of Takeru's preferred settings in the XM3 though.
>>14421681
That certainty makes sense but
>They want to meld Western tech into their Eastern design to see if they could make their CQC-focused doctrine better, not make a knockoff Eagle/Raptor.
The things Bridges was complaining about (Not turning on a dime, not pulling out of hard dives) seem like things that would need to be fixed on a TSF with a CQC focus.
>>14421709
>The things Bridges was complaining about (Not turning on a dime, not pulling out of hard dives) seem like things that would need to be fixed on a TSF with a CQC focus.
They can. Yuuya was the issue, not the TSF.
