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I have started out as a novice freelance pilot, and I am stumped. I managed to get to the third mission but I cant complete it, not becuase I am getting vaporised all the time but because its so utterly BORING!

The mission is a standard patrol-fly-around-shoot-them-down, which I do. I fly quite unthreatened, find some Black Suns, engage them, get one in sight, fire, hit...and hit, hit, hit, hit....
Its like beating a pig to death with a club! I am in no danger and he is doomed, but it takes to frelling long! On top off this by the time I am finished there are already another stupid piggy shouting "Kill me too!".

It ends when my hands start to hurt some 45 minits later and I jump to hyper just to get some rest.

How can you enjoy this? Am I doing something wrong? Have someone else finished these damn freelance-trainingmissions and know a shortcut?