**Hawk**: *[Through comms]* Alright, Falcon, let’s go through the pre-flight checklist. We’re scheduled for wheels up in fifteen. You got the list?

**Falcon**: *[Through comms]* Roger that, Hawk. Beginning with power-up sequence. Battery switch on.

**Hawk**: Battery switch on. Main power is good, reading 28 volts.

**Falcon**: Copy. External power cart disconnected. Moving on to avionics. All systems show nominal. INS alignment starting.

**Hawk**: Confirmed. INS alignment in progress. EPU switch?

**Falcon**: EPU switch is armed. Hydraulic systems check, both A and B systems showing normal pressure.

**Hawk**: Hydraulics good. Let’s run the flight control surfaces. Stick full forward, then full aft.

**Falcon**: *[Watching the control surfaces through the HUD]* Stick full forward, check. Full aft, check. Ailerons next. Left and right.

**Hawk**: Ailerons left and right, check. Rudder?

**Falcon**: Rudder left, rudder right, both check. Flaps set to takeoff position.

**Hawk**: Flaps set. Moving to engine start. Throttle to idle. Engine start switch to the right engine.

**Falcon**: *[Monitoring the engine start-up on the multifunction display]* Right engine spooling up… N1 at 20%, fuel flow stabilized. Ignition, and… we have light off. N2 rising, engine parameters within green.

**Hawk**: Engine stabilized. Starting left engine. *[Repeats the procedure]* Left engine spooling… light off confirmed. Both engines stabilized.

**Falcon**: Engines are green. Generators on, and we have positive indication on both gens. Electrical systems nominal.

**Hawk**: Good. Moving to navigation. INS alignment complete, GPS synchronized. Autopilot system initialized and ready for flight plan input.

**Falcon**: Flight plan loaded. Waypoints confirmed. Radios set to departure frequency. Requesting taxi clearance.

**Hawk**: *[Switching to ATC frequency]* Tower, this is Hawk One-One, requesting taxi clearance to runway two-niner.

**ATC**: Hawk One-One, you are cleared to taxi via Alpha, hold short of runway two-niner.

**Hawk**: *[To Falcon]* We’re cleared to taxi via Alpha. Brakes off. You have the taxi checklist?

**Falcon**: Taxi lights on, anti-collision lights on, transponder to active mode. Parking brake released.

**Hawk**: Copy that. Taxiing now. *[The jet begins to move, the whine of the engines growing louder as they roll out of the hangar]*.

**Falcon**: Ground speed at 10 knots, holding steady. Nose wheel steering check.

**Hawk**: Nose wheel steering is responsive. Holding short at runway two-niner. Contacting tower for takeoff clearance.

**Falcon**: Confirmed. We’re aligned and ready.

**Hawk**: *[To ATC]* Tower, Hawk One-One holding short at two-niner, ready for departure.

**ATC**: Hawk One-One, cleared for takeoff runway two-niner. Winds 280 at 10, good luck out there.

**Hawk**: Cleared for takeoff, runway two-niner. *[To Falcon]* Brakes off, throttle advancing to military power.

**Falcon**: Military power set, engines responding. Instruments in the green. Airspeed alive.

**Hawk**: Rotating at 140 knots. *[The jet lifts off the runway, the ground falling away beneath them]* Gear up.

**Falcon**: Gear up and locked. Climbing to 10,000 feet. All systems go.

**Hawk**: *[Feeling the surge of power and the smooth ascent]* Climbing through 5,000, everything looking solid. I can see the Femboy-ass hangar that we left from here.

**Falcon**: Good work.

**Hawk**: Very good work.