All i know is this has become a top read - the fact is that if this Dave EVER gets into real time life and actually out on a, what's the word, squadron. Thats the bugger. on a squadron the crews will not be allowed to fly it for fear of breaking it, the lineys will be kept in a cage miles away and the super graduate techs will be employed in strict rotation after making sure their guard, ccs, fitness and all the other triv is done so that a simple task like a BF has to scheduled in weeks in advance.
Then Hal will say he's not happy about the pod bay doors and demand to be internet conected to LM - the sortie gets scrubbed and the interface unit (pilot) loses his months flying pay.
When he does eventually get airborne for his fifth and last flying hour of the year the weather will be crap.
He will have to land away whereupon Hal will complain about the pod bay doors again - there will be no special line for him to talk to the head meddler at LM - so he's going to have to connect via wifi - Hal gets a virus and refuses to work ever again - the chinese or the koreans got a bug into the software somehow and we end up with the worlds most expensive gate guardians......
G limits and transonic accel times are irrelevant.