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The plan to avoid their glider being tracked was, as far as Kaira understood it, simple enough. They would be launching at the same time as a number of ordinary flights, aiming to lose themselves amongst the crowd.
That made it almost impossible for the authorities to even tell if everyone had a beacon on, and certainly meant they would be able to slip away without being tracked visually. When Tarkus had asked why the authorities didn’t insist each glider launch individually, Marak smiled.
“All glider pilots are free spirits,” he said. “It comes with the territory. The authorities have tried to insist on individual launches a few times, but it never works out. There are always miscommunications on who will launch when, and some pilots accidentally launching too soon.
“Not many
