Hi - I'm looking for a 80's sci fi movie title... but all I can remember is I think its set in the future and there is a group of men/women that my have been in prison and have to fly these hi tech helicopters or flying machines and for each flying machine with a man/woman they have a (young) operator/navigator controlling certain features of each helicopter/flying machine... I remember one scene where they fly in a canyon.

It's Moon 44 (1990) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097910/)

Thanks heaps Gekko :-)