Now they let him dock ships at Praxis because the real pilots usually do all the work.

You never told me you knew a real, live, bomber pilot, Pearl.

Berry refused to get excited about the possibility of finding real pilots who could fly the Straton.

Of course, his ship had been charred and broken then, but he could still give credit to a real pilot when he flew with one.

"A real pilot would have tried to save his air- plane," the Bosnian said with a sneer.

Well, this isn't an amateur flying circus; my men are real pilots!

"We don't have a real pilot aboard," Dusty said.

"Don't be such a hardcase, Deakes," one of the real pilots said.

"Look, I'm still one of the real pilots around."

That meant the real pilot had to stay with it to the end.