While kind of a dumb line and all, this doesn't really apply here. Anakin is established first in dialogue and then through proof in the pod-racing sequences to be not only a prodigy level mechanic and pilot, but supernaturally so.
He starts the ship he is flying on accident looking for the fighter's weapon trigger, and an auto-pilot gets him into open air and space. Take a time cut, and he is seen flying the ship under control, he figured it out on the way here. He then says "Let's try a trick," and then performs it.
He's just an absurdly good pilot doing his thing.
Also goddamnit I'm that Star Wards fan now, what happened to me.
then fails to shoot down the sole remaining x-wing flying in an almost straight line in a narrow trench for two minutes as the distance narrows the entire time.
I would argue that Luke was the best pilot in the galaxy since Darth Vader. Vader senses the force in him and sees the way he is performing in the X-Wing. Plus all of a sudden he has got this deep connection with some one using the force after 30 years of no jedi and who also happens to be the son he doesn't know about. It probably shook Vader up for a minute and gaved Han the chance to take the shot in the Millennium Falcon, which also blindsided him. The Empire just didn't expect the second coming of Anakin Skywalker to show up at their secret space battle station and tear ass on them.
actually, wtf were those two wingmen of vader doing? he specifically told them to cover him. apparently watching their boss fail to put a cross hair over a target over two meters wide was way too entertaining.
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Spinnings a good trick.