GR00T: those people that just has a knack at something. I've met a few in my time: the guy that can pick up and play any instrument with strings with no prior lessons and very little practice
I'm one of those, that's why I'm playing instruments you can hardly find teachers for anyway, I still need an hour or so to get to know the instrument before I can play tunes on it though and way longer to master it.
Don't forget, that the Tie Fighter pilots are the creme de la creme of the empire, I even had the feeling, that the movie actually hinted at the excellent old Tie Fighter video game, but that could just be me.
GR00T: I don't know. I didn't get the feeling there was all that much time between when Luke joined the Rebellion at the rebel base and when he was flying out to take out the Death Star. Not enough to explain his flying ability, anyway.
Seriously, you can't compare an X-Wing to the Falcon.
X-Wings are dedicated fighters, built for fast and intuitive flying while the Falcon is a heap of various probably ancient trash parts hammered together in a lovely fashion. Flying this thing must need a bloody lot more knowledge of it than something from a series of fighters and it's often made clear in the old trilogy, that only Han and Chewie can operate this thing without it acting up too much and ending up as a smear on an asteroid. The Falcon always was a lovely reference to those old and reliable cars you have to know inside out to be able to operate at all but are surprisingly good if you have a certain symbiosis with it.
Ray's flying abilities are ridiculously perfect, especcially in the Falcon. I would have accepted giving her an X-Wing and a few hours of training to be enough with a supernatural talent like the one from Luke, but not just like this.
tinyE: WAY WAY WAY OT
I recently got a BluRay player and I'd like to get the original trilogy but I heard they fucked up the end of Jedi with Vader screaming as he saves Luke.
I'd honestly just rather keep the DVDs than to have to see that crap.
Do I have any choice with this?
If you manage to find a digital version of the old trilogy that has Luke's father at the end again instead of Hayden Christensen, please tell me! Did they edit this special edition crap even further for the BD-release? I miss my old VHS tapes, the DVDs are inferior thanks to the later edits. :/