This has been the standard for as long as I can remember; one example I'm sure many readers recall fondly is Escape Velocity, the demo for which was practically the whole game, except that once you passed the 30-day trial period, a rogue fighter ship piloted by one "Cap'n Hector" would harass you and steal your credits (the scoundrel).
Soon Colonel Aldrin joined Mr. Armstrong, bounding like kangaroos in the low lunar gravity, one sixth that of Earth's, while the command ship pilot, Michael Collins, remained in orbit about 60 miles overhead, waiting their return.
In 1801 a ship pilot was put ashore on the rocks below the cliffs.
Other cast members include Kate Dickie as the ship's medic, Ford; Emun Elliott and Benedict Wong as, respectively, ship pilots Chance and Ravel; and Patrick Wilson as Shaw's father.
On board at the time were 74 civilian crew, 53 Australian Army Medical Corps personnel (including 8 officers), 12 female nurses from the Australian Army Nursing Service, 192 soldiers from the 2/12th Field Ambulance, and one Torres Strait ship pilot.
Amongst those rescued were Sister Ellen Savage, the only surviving nurse from 12 aboard; Leslie Outridge, the only surviving doctor from 18 aboard; Gordon Rippon, second officer and most senior surviving crewmember; and Richard Salt, the Torres Strait ship pilot.
A star ship pilot who can't sing very well is still a perfectly good star ship pilot.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) has now become a widely used aid to navigation and it is commonly used in many navigational applications such as land surveying, shipping, piloting, route guidance, map making, study of earthquakes, precise time reference, and hobbies and games such as geocaching.
Bridle calls the project "a piece of London, unevenly distributed" and it follows on from a project called A Ship Adrift which used a similar concept, but that ship was piloted by a "lost, mad AI autopilot".
Her ship arrives, piloted by the Etecoons and Dachoras, and they escape before the station impacts the planet.
The hallways, stairs and offices are lined with Jacobsen paintings of steamships and barks, packet boats and passenger ships, pilot boats and clipper ships sailing the bounding main.
