>>23510076
He wouldn't be a pilot, but he'd definitely be an engineer rather than a farmer.
Also, consider this- with him as a mechanic, an incident with him accidentally getting to pilot a Gundam (just not the Gundam) would still not be out of the question in GQ, it'd just go more like that one English Electric Lightning incident where he does a circle around the base and gets back down rather than becomes the most important man of the war.