Essence of theDanger Zone

This canned drink’s labeling features references to other universes you may or may not get. Tastes like orange, blue skies, and JP-7. Drinking it grants you the following:

• A self-designed body that is functionally peak for your species, no matter what species you are, and with no regard to its visible attributes. Your constitution and general ability to survive the rigors of aerospace combat are well above the peak for your species.

• Your piloting abilities are peerless. Anything flight capable you get your grubby little mitts on is more agile, deadly, fast, and survivable purely by virtue of you being at the controls.

• This will never be made irrelevant. Even if you are infinitely fast, any aircraft you fly will be infinitely fast+1, or whatever it takes. Additionally, any abilities you have can be channeled through your aerial vehicles in whatever way is most useful, so long as you are piloting them.

• The weapons, fuel, and any other stores of your aircraft are multiplied by a factor of 100, and they will fully reload any time you land somewhere in friendly territory and give them even just a half-hour’s attention. Their loadout must be weaponry you own or have owned at least one example of, however.

• Any aircraft you so much as glance at is added to a mental library you can access with barely a thought. This library gives you perfect engineering and maintenance knowledge of them regardless of your own technical knowledge before this essence. You could even home-make upgrades for your planes with the right materials and tools. This ability extends to their weapons, as well.

• One free combat-focused plane or helicopter of your own design, potentially based on an existing real world or fictional aircraft. It has three moderately powerful special abilities/special weapons of your design, but can be upgraded by you far easier than any other if you want more or stronger abilities. It will return to you wholly intact 24 hours later if it’s destroyed.

• Even if mute, you can communicate effectively and perfectly with others in your airspace. Nobody will find this unusual.

• Optionally, any two-seat aircraft you fly will spontaneously manifest a plucky tomboy copilot. No, she doesn’t exist outside of the plane. Good for moral support, though. If you enter a craft with more than two positions, like a four-seat EA-6B, there will be more tomboys of various flavors. They will always be able to keep up with your skills, much like your planes themselves.

• If you elect not to take the tomboy, any extra positions will still function as though someone with your skill were sitting in them. She’ll be sad, though.

• You can teach others piloting skills close to your own in a mere fraction of the time it would normally take.

• A 75% discount on any purchases in piloting themed CYOAs or piloting themed purchases elsewhere, applying before any existing discounts.

• Of course, this is all toggleable, or a sliding scale, adjusting to your liking.

• Optionally, be inserted into a specific or generic air combat centric setting.