History Main / ImprobablePilotingSkills

* Joker from MassEffect gets special mention. This guy makes Han Solo look like an amateur. Bonus points for having a medical condition that makes his bones as brittle as glass.

* The SuperRobotWars [[BeyondTheImpossible crank up the skill]] [[MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray]] displayed in the series to a [[UpToEleven rediculous degree]], to the point where even the [[EldritchAbomination EldritchAbominations]] let alone every anime's cast recognize him as one of the most badass people in the universe (Which he shares with people like [[GetterRobo Ryouma]], [[MazingerZ Kouji]], and pretty much every sort of god like SuperRobot ever so that says A LOT) while he's piloting a [[RealRobot GUNDAM]]. [[GameBreaker His stats reflect this.]]

* The SuperRobotWars [[BeyondTheImpossible crank up the skill]] [[MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray]] displayed in the series to a [[UpToEleven rediculous degree]], to the point where even the [[EldrichAbomination EldritchAbominations]] let alone every anime's cast recognize him as one of the most badass people in the universe (Which he shares with people like [[GetterRobo Ryouma]], [[MazingerZ Kouji]], and pretty much every sort of god like SuperRobot ever so that says A LOT) while he's piloting a [[RealRobot GUNDAM]]. [[GameBreaker His stats reflect this.]]

* The SuperRobotWars [[BeyondTheImpossible crank up the skill]] [[MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray]] displayed in the series to a [[UpToEleven rediculous degree]], to the point where even the [[EldrichAbomination EldrichAbominations]] let alone every anime's cast recognize him as one of the most badass people in the universe (Which he shares with people like [[GetterRobo Ryouma]], [[Mazinger Z Kouji]], and pretty much every sort of god like SuperRobot ever so that says A LOT) while he's piloting a [[RealRobot GUNDAM]]. [[GameBreaker His stats reflect this.]]

** [[TearJerker "I am a leaf on the wind, watch me ..."]]

* Hawk Hunter of the ''Wingman'' series by Mack Maloney is this x50. He can fly any craft, even shooting down and outmaneuvering several MiG jet fighters with an ''A-1 Skyraider prop plane'', a relic with nothing but cannons. He's also a certified genius and engineer, which lets him know every detail of every plane in the world (to the point of knowing the location of all the individual bolts and weld spots on his own F-16) and is in fact ''psychic'', letting him tell the direction a plane is going and what speed/altitude it's traveling at before it's within visual range, or tell when his F-16 is approaching with another pilot at the stick.

* Colonel John Sheppard from StargateAtlantis claims he can fly anything. He proceeds to do so over the course of the series.

** Taken to extremes in MobileSuitGundamSEED, though not by the numerous [[AcePilot ace pilots]] as one might expect. Rather, the most improbable is Arnold Neumann, the helmsman of the [[CoolShip Archangel]], who isn't well known enough to be mentioned even once on the trope page of that series, and yet is responsible for some of the most insane maneuvers ever performed by a battleship in a RealRobot series. [[MemeticMutation Doing a barrel roll]] to point the ship's guns down or circumvent an enemy battleship? No problem. Recovering from a botched atmospheric re-entry? Not even worth a mention. Dodging beams and guided missiles alike between the time they are fired and the time they reach his ship (many times maneuvering so quickly it looks like the crew would surely be turned to red paste against the walls)? All in a day's work. And the Archangel isn't a small ship. It's TheBattlestar, and several times larger than the biggest modern aircraft carrier. It ought to break its wings, if not break in half, for doing half these things.

-->'''[[TheOtherDarrin Face]]''': Hey, I got us a Gulf Stream? Can you it?\\

The pilot will not run low on fuel. [[BottomlessMagazines Magazines are]] [[HyperspaceArsenal bottomless]], except for [[OneBuwwetWeft dramatic effect]]. As a corollary to '''Reinforced Plot Armor''', electrical, hydraulic, motor, and other related systems do not show signs of wear or damage, regardless of how long the device is used, or in what conditions.

--> "They were spectacular. We recorded thirty-four kills out of a possible thirty-six with no losses. If I hadn't been there, I'd think it was propaganda."
---> Tycho Celchu on the twelve active pilots of ''[[XWingSeries Rogue Squadron]]''

--> "[[LampshadeHanging He can't be Human!]]"
--> --Soon to be dead red-shirt enemy in ''AceCombat Zero''

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* HarryPotter, as soon as he gets out one of the clumsy, old-as-sin school training brooms (without having touched a broom before), can catch an apple-sized (glass) sphere in his hand after a fifty-foot dive, and topple gently to the ground. Granted, it's magic, but ''dayum''.

Heroes, as a rule, are supposed to be better than everyone else. However, if everyone is using similar (flying) machines to fight, it can be hard to make him stand out above his peers: enter Improbable Piloting Skills. If there’s ANY chance something can be done with a CoolPlane[=/=]HumongousMecha[=/=]HoverTank/GiantFlyer of choice (and indeed quite possibly even if there isn't), he can do it on the spur of the moment with a 100% success rate. And, of course, anything he climbs into basically gains an instant + 100 to all its stats.

Heroes, as a rule, are supposed to be better than everyone else. However, if everyone is using similar (flying) machines to fight, it can be hard to make him stand out above his peers: enter Improbable Piloting Skills. If there’s ANY chance something can be done with an airplane[=/=]HumongousMecha[=/=]hover tank/flying mount of choice (and indeed quite possibly even if there isn't), he can do it on the spur of the moment with a 100% success rate. And, of course, anything he climbs into basically gains an instant + 100 to all its stats.

Heroes, as a rule, are supposed to be better then everyone else. However, if everyone is using similar (flying) machines to fight, it can be hard to make him stand out above his peers: enter Improbable Piloting Skills. If there’s ANY chance something can be done with an airplane[=/=]HumongousMecha[=/=]hover tank/flying mount of choice (and indeed quite possibly even if there isn't), he can do it on the spur of the moment with a 100% success rate. And, of course, anything he climbs into basically gains an instant + 100 to all its stats.

Heroes, as a rule, are supposed to be better then everyone else. However, if everyone is using similar (flying) machines to fight, it can be hard to make him stand out above his peers: enter Improbable Piloting Skills. If there’s ANY chance something can be done with an airplane[=/=]HumongousMecha[=/=]hover tank/flying mount of choice (and indeed quite possibly even if there isn't), he can do it on the spur of the moment with a 100% success rate. And, of course, anything he climbs into basically gains an instant + 100 to all its stats.

Planes and most flying things tend to be fragile: if an unnamed character’s craft is so much as nicked by a slingshot's pebble, it will explode in a fiery conflagration. Not so the hero's craft, of course. Once he climbs aboard, any Personal PlotArmor he happens to be wearing is transferred to it and indeed quite possibly boosted. His craft may be missing a wing, so full of holes it looks like a sieve, and with one engine out, and he’ll still manage to shoot down five enemies with it before making an emergency landing. (Note that the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B-17-battle-casualty1.gif B-17]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveSc8Lp0ZE&fmt=18 Zivi Nadivi]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-10_Thunderbolt_II the Warthog]] are TruthInTelevision.)

The hero doesn’t just have good vision - he has wide angle telephoto vision with a super slow-mo shutter! He’ll always spot the enemy first and never lose track of him once sighted. He can clearly see and [[HighSpeedMissileDodge shoot down/dodge incoming missiles]] that would be nothing but a blur to a real human being as they are often moving faster than bullets.

** A somewhat less dramatic example: The pilots in ''[[XWingSeries Rogue Squadron]]'' are some of the best in the galaxy. They built up a reputation for being able to succeed at impossible missions.

*** Wedge explicitly has a combination of nearly-inhuman reflexes, situation awareness, and experience that totals up to making him almost supernaturally good. More than once he's able to "stretch his senses" through and past his X-Wing into the cockpit of enemy craft, knowing how they'll react before they do. He claims that it has nothing to do with the Force.

Heroes, as a rule, are supposed to be better then everyone else. However, if everyone is using similar (flying) machines to fight, it can be hard to make him stand out above his peers: enter Improbable Piloting Skills. If there’s ANY chance something can be done with an airplane[=/=]HumongousMecha[=/=]hover tank/flying mount of choice (and indeed quite possibly even if there isn't), he can do it on the spur of the moment with a 100% success rate. And, of course, anything he climbs into basically gains an instant + 100 to all its stats.

Planes and most flying things tend to be fragile: if an unnamed character’s craft is so much as nicked by a slingshot's pebble, it will explode in a fiery conflagration. Not so the hero's craft, of course. Once he climbs aboard, any Personal PlotArmor he happens to be wearing is transferred to it and indeed quite possibly boosted. His craft may be missing a wing, so full of holes it looks like a sieve, and with one engine out, and he’ll still manage to shoot down five enemies with it before making an emergency landing. (Note that the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B-17-battle-casualty1.gif B-17]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveSc8Lp0ZE&fmt=18 Zivi Nadivi]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-10_Thunderbolt_II the Warthog]] are TruthInTelevision.)

The hero doesn’t just have good vision - he has wide angle telephoto vision with a super slow-mo shutter! He’ll always spot the enemy first and never lose track of him once sighted. He can clearly see and [[HighSpeedMissileDodge shoot down/dodge incoming missiles]] that would be nothing but a blur to a real human being as they are often moving faster than bullets.

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* HarryPotter, as soon as he gets out one of the clumsy, old-as-sin school training brooms (without having touched a broom before), can catch an apple-sized (glass) sphere in his hand after a fifty-foot dive, and topple gently to the ground. Granted, it's magic, but ''dayum''.

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* [[TaleSpin Baloo]]. [[XJustX Just... Baloo]]. He possesses all the aforementioned skills sans one (the [[CoolPlane Seaduck]] isn't armed with missiles... unless you count [[EdibleAmmunition thrown fruit]]. [[ImprobableAimingSkills Which he never misses with, anyway.]]) He figured out the world's very first, prototype helicopter and JetPack in just a few minutes. His old and rusty cargo plane is faster and [[WronskiFeint more maneuverable]] than the [[SkyPirates Air Pirates]]' zippy miniplanes. He can withstand the immense G-forces from said plane's OverDrive. He can [[CatchAFallingStar catch small objects (and people) mid-fall]], while [[ExplosiveOverclocking flying at top speed]], just by reaching out the window. He can [[RammingAlwaysWorks kamikaze into]] {{Wave Motion Gun}}s ''as they fire at him'' AND glide the resulting wingless husk of a plane safely enough to save everyone on board. If a plane is missing the yoke, he can fly it by yanking the control cables directly. With his ''teeth''. To top it all off, he once flew a prototype jet engine past the speed of sound. We say again: a jet ''engine'', not a jet ''plane''. As in, a turbine that wasn't attached to ''anything''. And [[RocketRide he flew it successfully just by hanging for dear life and tugging on it]], proving that he doesn't even need wings to fly. Oh and he was the first person to break the sound barrier in his world, while riding on the engine. So even when he gloats, no one blames him for it. He has earned it: