“The first batch of female pilots we recruited last time had just finished their training and are taking their simulator test next week; do you want to take the captain’s seat in their sims test?”

“I’d have thought you’d want to do that or have a more experienced captain in the left seat,” Cheng Xiao said in surprise.

“I’ll be running the sims from the observer seat, and I thought they’d be a little more relaxed and motivated with you in the captain’s seat, having an example to emulate and all.”

“Well this is certainly a change from Captain ‘Let’s throw two engine failures and an incapacitated captain at the new female pilot’ I had to deal with,” Cheng Xiao observed dryly.

Gu Nanting smiled. “Who said I’m still not going to throw two engine failures at them?”