Academy flight trainer

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Academy flight training craft are types of spacecraft flown by Starfleet Academy cadets.

A type of sublight vessel was flown in the 2360s by such groups as Nova Squadron. (TNG: "The First Duty")

The Academy cadet ships were small, one-pilot, blunt-winged vessels, with a fairly flat cross-section; pilots had to wear flight helmets. The craft were equipped with landing struts, proximity alarms, and emergency transporters.

Federation attack fighter flight trainer schematics were part of an information download package aboard the USS Voyager. When One was assimilating as much information as he could, the flight trainer could be seen on a screen he was learning from. It was later seen when Seven used a new device on her Borg alcove to upload information directly into her brain. (VOY: "Drone", "The Voyager Conspiracy")

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The flight trainer was designed by Rick Sternbach, which he refers to as a "Starfleet trainer." [1]

Two versions of the Academy flight trainer have appeared on screen. The actual ships seen in "The First Duty" are different from the side view seen in "Drone". This has to do with an error in the Star Trek Encyclopedia. The article about the flight trainer incorrectly depicts a side view of the Federation attack fighter. For later Star Trek: Voyager episodes, several side views created by Doug Drexler for the Encyclopedia, including the view of the fighter from the Academy flight trainer article were used in various scenes where computer data was shown.

This wouldn't have been a problem, as the image alone could just have been a Federation attack fighter, but the image was labeled "Academy flight trainer", which makes the original error of the Encyclopedia canon and therefore creates two distinct versions of the Academy flight trainer.