For once- Not guilty for the Apollo/Adama show crack. It is all Rik's
Starbuck's miraculous crash still hangs in the borders of viability- It could have been a small moon, though getting around it seemed pretty normal and the dense atmosphere would still make it a warm experience.
It is possible that the Cylon driver managed to make a crash landing in one piece. As I recall from last week its failure was more of a flame out than any serious damage.
Flying the thing is also conceivably possible. Just find the buttons that make it go up, down, left, right and forwards. I would agree that she seemed to become rather too good at it and shoving your jacket in the hole is not necessarily the best way of creating an air tight pressure seal. Though it was a space suit jacket so perhaps it had self-sealing properties?
But hey! She has already parachuted onto this lump of rock from 500 miles up, so it is really nothing.
As for the driver itself-
Didn't Starbuck refer to the pilot as a cockroach?
It is puzzling that the Cylon's are using an organic life form as driver. But that is more because they are a mechanical race, not because an electronic device could handle it fastter/better. We put humans (sorry pilots) in aeroplanes because they are inately better at handling extreme situations than a machine, which has to be programmed for each circumstance.
Tigh, did, in military parlance at least, act correctly.
He reported a senior officer where his actions are straying too far from the mission objective and placing the unit as a whole in unneccesary danger.
It is just a pity he is such a creep. Perhaps he will get better when he finally dries out?
I can't help feeling sorry for the Chief as well. Last thing you want in your precious aircraft are pilots. They only go around breaking things!