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He may be a notch above the common run of Mooks, but against trained pilots he's practically a Mook himself. And, to be perfectly blunt, Lelouch is still a pretty crappy pilot. Admittedly, he doesn't even remotely fall in, but he never gets actual training, either. He's had some minor training, using the test type Ganymede, but that didn't have even half of the features of the modern Sutherland, like the weapon/grappling cable, and the gun, which he uses to great effect in his first deployment.

He's not amazing or anything, but he handles a Sutherland quite well on his first try, only briefly admitting that it's not as easy as it seems. Kallen, of course, is the best, and gets to pilot it in their operation. Her group does manage to get hold of a single Glasgow - the older military-use KMF type - and apparently they all try it out. Not only that, but she later manages to master the new KFs sent to the Black Knights by Kyouto and Rakshata with extraordinary speed and ease.
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Given how large the things are, what opportunity would they have had to practice with them enough to be good enough to go toe-to-toe with the military? Particularly egregious in Kallen's case, since her group operate in a city at least the JLF could conceivably have found a quiet patch of countryside. An oft-overlooked example are the Japanese rebels it's overtly stated that, until a certain point in the series, they don't have any Knightmare Frames of their own, only ones that they've stolen from the Britannians.
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He does mention simulator training at one point. The dialog implies that Suzaku's aptitude was tested when he first enlisted, but since only native Britannians are allowed to pilot Knightmares his high marks meant bupkis. It later turns out that he's the best match for the mecha. Suzaku is the only soldier available to pilot the new Lancelot Knightmare Frame because he's at base recovering from a point-blank bullet wound while everyone else is out slaughtering civilians.
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The entire series is spent training him how to both pilot the mecha and "couple" with the ace.

That particular mecha was designed to synchronize the two brain patterns of the designated pilot and the Ace Pilot. After being hurled into the future, the lead character finds himself inside the cockpit of an experimental mecha, during an armed attack.
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Usually, this would fall under Artistic License – Military. (To turn, pull the lever on the side you want to turn to, then release it once you've re-oriented.) The Soviet Union particularly valued easily-learned equipment (and Russia has inherited that priority) the T-54/T-55 series of tanks (and engineering vehicles based on them) have basically the same controls as a large truck, except that they have steering levers instead of steering wheels. Some military vehicles (helicopters, aircraft) will never be easy to pick up on the fly, but there's equipment out there that's specifically designed to be easy to operate.

This trope isn't necessarily as contrived or nonsensical as it might first appear. It could be that all the normal pilots were wearing Red Shirts that day, or the fact that the machine is kind of an Empathic Weapon, and can only key itself to its first pilot (or just likes him better), but for the time being, he's stuck in the cockpit of an engine of destruction, whether he wants to or not. Of course, the problem afterwards is how to keep them in the machine after the crisis has passed. Our hero might have an assload of raw talent, secretly be a Replacement Goldfish, part of the next stage in Human evolution or just play videogames a lot, but whatever the reason, he now has to pilot the thing in the middle of a battle (where he is now a prime target) just to get out of the situation alive. A common device whereby a character, usually an Ordinary High-School Student, is thrust into piloting a machine that they wouldn't be allowed anywhere near under normal circumstances due to a disaster or enemy attack.
