The title says it all. The guys I play with are all trying to figure out how exactly the piloting works. If someone could explain it that would be great thanks!

First you have to have the piloting skill NOT the pilot sub-type. Piloting is pretty straight forward, When you activate a character with Piloting ability you activate the character and declare which vehicle they are piloting and activate the vehicle as well. Just remember what vehicle is being piloted by who. In the case of Vader you can kill the character and defeat a vehicle they are piloting if conditions are met.

It is basically an attempt to vehicle support cheat by getting its die in the pool sooner.

ok thanks!

Although at that point I suspect he was already on the verge of going for the throttles - that 50-40-30 was alarmingly quick and although it's hard to see the displays to confirm it, presumably the PF already knew the approach was unstable... because for Kodi nox one thing, you don't drop like a rock in a stable approach