Gravity mechanics with a planet? I think the engines of the starfighters can cope.

Gravity bombs or Interdictors though...

There is one person in Star Wars who is well acquainted with the effects of Gravity on his starfighter. The one and only Jek Tono Porkins. He forgot to calibrate his stabilizers for the weak but present Gravity of the Death Star. So, when his engine got damaged, he thought he was pulling up when really gravity pulled his ship down into the surface of the station.

No, what happened to Porkins was his stabilizer was hit and was forcing his ship down when his scopes said he was climbing. Had he had his acceleration compensators turned down he would have felt that rather than trusting his sensors and would have climbed to avoid crashing.

No, what happened to Porkins was his stabilizer was hit and was forcing his ship down when his scopes said he was climbing. Had he had his acceleration compensators turned down he would have felt that rather than trusting his sensors and would have climbed to avoid crashing.

Or looked out the window... How do you miss the giant grey mass approaching?

No, what happened to Porkins was his stabilizer was hit and was forcing his ship down when his scopes said he was climbing. Had he had his acceleration compensators turned down he would have felt that rather than trusting his sensors and would have climbed to avoid crashing.

Or looked out the window... How do you miss the giant grey mass approaching?

Has anyone bothered to ask the Death Star whether it noticed the giant orange mass approaching?

Just flying regular airplanes around near the Earth's surface, I deal with acceleration forces of 4-5x normal gravity based on my maneuvering alone. Gravity force decreases with the square of the radius from the object in question, so in low earth orbit it'll be either a little or a lot less (LEO is a sort of vague term). Compared to whatever the ship feels because of its maneuvering, the gravity forces of being near a planet would be negligible.

Now a scenario where you're, say, trying to fly around near a black hole...

No, what happened to Porkins was his stabilizer was hit and was forcing his ship down when his scopes said he was climbing. Had he had his acceleration compensators turned down he would have felt that rather than trusting his sensors and would have climbed to avoid crashing.

Or looked out the window... How do you miss the giant grey mass approaching?

It's very easy to loose track of the horizon while flying, which is why the attitude indicator (the little dial that shows if you're banking, ascending, or descending) exists in the first place. When combined with being told to fly low over the surface of the death star, it only takes a split second of confusion at that speed to end up a flaming orange smear.

I always thought Jek just got hit by turbolaser fire?