"That's cool," Billy said. But it wasn't, it totally wasn't cool because he could fly for real and didn't need a plane or anything like that. So take that, mister super-cool fire fighter who is also a fighter pilot! Only not, because it wasn't like Billy could actually tell the guy he could fly. So he would just have to do a half-hearted job of pretending to be impressed so they guy knew he wasn't. Well, he wasn't that impressed. A fighter pilot was kind of cool. "Less people probably shooting at you too."