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Welcome to Mynock Flight Academy!

What is Flight Academy? Flight Academy is a monthly “back to basics” episode to help both fresh new recruits and grizzled veterans alike. For our newer players, Flight Academy acts as a foundational building block to learn the important fundamentals of X-Wing. For our more seasoned pros, think of this as a refresher course of various elements you may have forgotten, or skipped over in your own self-education of the game.

To make it easier to listen to past episodes, we’ll be giving these episodes their own number. It’s our intent that a year from now, new players will be able to listen to just these 12 episodes and feel that they have a good primer into how to elevate their game. The advice you’ll gain in these sessions should transcend metas and be useful regardless of what the current “powerhouse” is.

Today, we overview the templates and maneuvers, which are the most fundamental element of X-Wing.

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:10:00 Maneuvers Overview
• 00:33:00 Straights and other Basics
• 01:24:00 Banks
• 01:48:00 Turns
• 02:13:00 Advanced Maneuvers

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41 minutes ago, Rytackle said:

Today, we overview the templates and maneuvers, which are the most fundamental element of X-Wing. 

Nice episode!

One question about the X/Y numbers in the shownotes, maybe interesting for a daily question poll. They are always given for the center back point. Are you guys really using this as reference? The way I visualize the movement is to go to the closest corner and reconstruct the others from there. A 2hard is 1-1, a 3hard is 2-2. A 3bank is roughly 3-1, and so on. All the guides used the center back point that you are using, too. But I was pretty lost with it when I started out.

10 minutes ago, GreenDragoon said:

Nice episode!

One question about the X/Y numbers in the shownotes, maybe interesting for a daily question poll. They are always given for the center back point. Are you guys really using this as reference? The way I visualize the movement is to go to the closest corner and reconstruct the others from there. A 2hard is 1-1, a 3hard is 2-2. A 3bank is roughly 3-1, and so on. All the guides used the center back point that you are using, too. But I was pretty lost with it when I started out.

I'm not using that as a reference point, it's math I jacked from another person. Some people I've talked to though do visualize from the back center point of their base.

I just wanted to make sure I had all "Bases" covered when giving people tools to visualize.

You spend an hour talking about straight moves?? Wow.

Thank you guys for all you do!

3 hours ago, Dreadai said:

You spend an hour talking about straight moves?? Wow.

Where is your podcast?