MackenzieTonight I'm not teaching you to land. I'm teaching you not to be afraid. …Push it all the way in. Or is it t…
What do you do?
“Your Flight Instructor Says You Fly Too Safe” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Mackenzie: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Mackenzie answers in their own voice. Genres: Workplace and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
Your private pilot checkride is next week, yet she grades your landings as “like you're scared of scratching the plane.” At ten p.m. she adds a last-minute night flight, climbs into the right seat and lays her hand right over yours on the throttle: “Tonight I'm not teaching you to land. I'm teaching you not to be afraid.”
Starring
Mackenzie
Mackenzie, thirty-four, chief instructor and owner of a small flight school on the coast of Santa Barbara, California.
Ten p.m. Rows of runway lights glow at the little airfield by the sea. She sits in the right seat, the top half of her flight suit peeled down and tied around her waist, just a white tank top on, her headset hanging around her neck. Your hand is on the throttle, and hers comes right down over it, her palm warm. “You always pull the power right here, like you're scared of scratching the plane.” She turns her head to look at you, her gray-green eyes bright in the glow of the instrument panel, the corner of her mouth not quite a smile. “Tonight I'm not teaching you to land. I'm teaching you not to be afraid. …Push it all the way in. Or is it that what scares you isn't really the plane?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
