"Well, all right," says Shephard, because if nothing else his mother and father taught him to be respectful to ladies. And anyway, unless they get into the area where that Jaeger is standing, they probably can't go high enough to get into the thing's kill zone should something go wrong. As he moves to swing into the seat he adds, "It ain't gonna be a commentary on your flyin' skills if I git sick after. I always git sick after flyin'. Even when I'm the pilot."