[Being a kid is absolutely no excuse. First mission or no, Pixy is half wondering if the castle's making the game go easy on her. She shouldn't have been able to take that guy head-on without getting shot. ...not to mention, with how slow she is, she'll be toast at the first wave of aces. Or when she encounters stealth aircraft.]

Pay careful attention to your surroundings, kid. You're going to have to get better reaction time than that. If an enemy ace catches on, you're gonna get yourself shot down.

[He's criticizing her performance, but at least he's doing it nicely- trying to keep up the 'fatherly educating' thing. And he is giving her benefit of the doubt because there's probably a learning curve to going from controller to flightstick. ...but she's still slow.]