Chronologically first of Pirx stories. Student Pirx takes his first solo flight; it is disrupted by a fly in the cabin that finally shorts circuits so it takes all his ingenuity not to crash into the Moon.
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Placement
- Pilot Pirx
- contained in More Tales of Pirx the Pilotcollection
- contained in The Best of Omni Science Fiction No. 3anthology