Piloting

Default: IQ-6
Piloting/TL (DX/Average) is the skill to operate a specific type of aircraft or spacecraft. Requires specialization
The Classic skill Aviation/TL, which covered basic map reading or practical meteorology, and the ability to recall aviation laws and regulations, is part of this skill.
=== Note: Player Character Use ===
* Pulp and Action adventures will typically involve NPCs using piloting skills, but "lining up a shot" in a helicopter or dogfighting plane will use Helicopter or Light Airplane respectively!
** For weaving through flak in a bomber, use Heavy Airplane
==Specializations==
=== Aerospace ===
Defaults: High-Performance Airplane-2 or other Piloting at -4.
Vehicles capable of atmospheric flight to and from orbit. Pilots in superhero stories tend to learn this skill after mastering High-Performance Airplane.
=== Autogyro ===
Defaults: Helicopter-3, any Airplane specialty at -4, or other Piloting at -5.
=== Contragravity ===
Defaults: Vertol-3 or other Piloting at -5.
=== Flight Pack ===
Defaults: Vertol-4 or other Piloting at -5.
=== Glider ===
Defaults: Light Airplane or Ultralight at -2, or other Piloting at -4.
=== Heavy Airplane ===
Defaults: High-Performance Airplane or Light Airplane at -2, or other Piloting at -4.
Any winged aircraft weighing over 10 tons and flying at 600 mph (Basic Move 300) or slower.
=== Helicopter ===
For rotor aircraft! Appears around TL7.
Defaults: Autogyro-2, Vertol-4, or other Piloting at -5.
=== High-Performance Airplane ===
Defaults: Aerospace, Heavy Airplane, or Light Airplane at -2, or other Piloting at -4.
Covers planes able to fly faster in level flight than 600 mph (Basic Move 300). This limits it to jets or rocket planes (such as the Douglas X-3 Stiletto) as the fasted prop plane in level flight (Tupolev Tu-114) only reached 540 mph.
=== High-Performance Spacecraft ===
Defaults: Aerospace-4 or Low-Performance Spacecraft-2.
Must have a minimum acceleration of 0.1G and be a space vehicle.
=== Light Airplane ===
Defaults: Glider, Heavy Airplane, High-Performance Airplane, or Ultralight at -2, or other Piloting at -4.
Covers aircraft under 10 tons and slower then 600 mph (Basic Move 300)
=== Lighter-Than-Air ===
Defaults: other Piloting at -5. For the crew skill, see Airshipman.
For piloting any kind of airship or balloon. This can have sub-specializations such as rigid airship, blimp, and free balloon. These show up around TL5, and are the earliest aircraft, before the first fixed-wing fliers.
=== Lightsail ===
Default: Low-Performance Spacecraft-4.
=== Low-G Wings ===
Default: Glider-4.
=== Low-Performance Spacecraft ===
Defaults: Aerospace-4 or High-Performance Spacecraft-2.
=== Ornithopter ===
Skill for flying ornithopters, beating-wing aircraft that fly like birds.Vehicles: Steampunk Conveyances, p.15 
Defaults: Autogyro, Glider, Helicopter, Light Airplane, Low-G Wings, Ultralight, or Vertol, all at -5.
=== Ultralight ===
Defaults: Glider or Light Airplane at -2, other Airplane specialties at -4, or other Piloting at -5.
=== Vertol ===
Defaults: Contragravity-3, Helicopter-4, or other Piloting at -5.
==Kromm comments==
* On Crewman versus Piloting versus Shiphandling
==Notes==
For just how complex this skill can be was some of Mentour Pilot's videos
== See Also ==
* Driving
* Boating
* Crewman (skill)
== References ==
* Basic Set, p.214
Category:TL Skills