SilverWook said:

imperialscum said:

Bingowings said:

The Rebels are an insurgent force (not an established planetary military force).

Even so it would be like Holland Vs the galaxy.

The planet they are on is about to be vapourised.

I think they would be sticking every man they could in those things especially people skilled at piloting similar craft that vouched for by a current squadron member and can get a character reference from one of the leaders of the whole operation.

Luke and Biggs both assert that Luke is skilled enough to pilot the ship well.

And if you are going to call me stupid do it in the off topic section.

Since you try so hard to establish how poor this rebels are, what would make you believe they have more expensive star fighters than manpower. Logically it would be the opposite of course.

Yea sure Biggs vouched for Luke. Two guys from a poor 3rd world country were driving tractors at their farm when they were young. One of them went to a developed country to become a fighter pilot. Some time later they meet and this guy vouches for his friend "you know we drove tractors when we were young". The squadron commander is indeed so impressed that he immediately puts the guy into the fighter plane cabin.

And btw I did not call you stupid.

Biggs and Luke both flew T-16 Skyhoppers on Tatooine. Luke fools around with a small model of it in the film, and you can see the full size one in the back of the garage where he cleans up the droids.

An equipment that can be owned by a poor backwater farmers is equivalent to tractor in modern world. So my comparison is still completely valid.