Everyone who pilots any kind of ship knows those things.
The pilot may not have known he was being followed.
By this time the '101 pilots knew who they were up against.
It was as if the pilot in the F-16 knew what he had done.
The pilots did not even know if there was anyone left alive.
Of course, these pilots knew exactly where they were going, and no one was even shooting at them.
But the pilot, with his experience, had known all about it.
The pilot of that plane knows exactly where we are.
A pilot never knew for certain until he had been there himself.
A pilot might not know what was happening at first.