Starfighters are made of tissue paper. Even if you use the squad rules to make PCs last longer, every time you are hit, it eliminates one of your minions. Therefore you need to figure out how to not be hit. Squad leader gives an early Defensive Driving, but everyone else needs to dump 60+ XP into getting basic dodge-shields, and more piloting skill doesnt help you dodge any better.
Or does it?
Any time you roll the dice, you can spend 2 advantage to inflict a black die on another combatantt, or to get a blue die on your next check. The more times you roll the dice, the more blck dice you can spread around.
Improved Full throttle is a pilot check as a maneuver, for only 30 XP into a pilot or driver tree. It also has some minor, potentially useful effects, but the important thing it gives you is a roll as a maneuver. As a Pilot check, it adds the Handling of your highly maneuverable starfighter, letting you roll more advantages, and while the effects of multiple uses dont stack on the same targets, it doesnt stop you from rolling to affect more targets, either.
There's only a few more abilities like this in the game, and while the others are more generally useful, they're all more expensive. Supreme Scathing Tirade is the most potentially powerful, but also the most likely to be GM fiated away. ("They turn off their radios and stop listening"). Supreme Inspiring Rhedoric works, but not much else does.
Improved Full throttle is thematic for anyone who's played the Xwing/Tie fighter flight sims, where you are always playing games with your throttle to get into a good position for your dogfight. It's relatively cheap, and on the talent tree of most characters who really care about piloting. And it gives a small but nice boost to starfighter survivability, a must for a fighter themed game.
