Re: Time Variance Regarding Helicopter

In article <4828FD76.638D@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, fkellis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> Hunter wrote:
>
>I totally disagree. If Faraday maintained a perfect 305 course
>Desmond would had been okay. That was the purpose of the
>whold sequence. Show the compass on the proper heading;
>show the thunderhead coming to tell people they are in for a
>rough ride. Show the compass heading needle drifting; show
>Frank grasping the joystick with both hands to bring it back;
>then show Desmond's conscious time travel back to 1996.
>That sequence was ment to show a cause and effect between
>going off course and Desmond's time disorientation. The
>thunderstorm was just a vehicle to make Frank go off course
>against his will.

All you have proven with your frame by frame breakdown of that scene is
that 
the compass had a split-second flicker to 310 which was immediately 
corrected by Frank.  You forget that Frank was hired because he was a sh--
 
hot pilot, possibly he even flew Huey's in Vietnam (if he is in mid 
fifties), the type of pilot who could autorotate to a safe landing after
an 
engine cut-out at 300 ft altitude.  I have no doubt that when Frank saw
the 
compass needle approaching 310 he immediately jerked the collective over 
toward 300 and let the chopper drift back to 305.  Net effect:  the 
deviation to 310 was immediately compensated for and the bird is still on
a 
305 heading with respect to its point of departure on the Island.  Also, 
Lostpedia summaries are not canon, if this issue is so relevant re the 
Zodiac staying on a 305 course then Team Darlton should have made a 
statement in a Podcast or interview that confirmed the course deviation 
after The Constant.  That is the only source I'm willing to accept in 
certifying that a significant course deviation actually happened.  BTW do 
you actually think a man steering an outboard watercraft with one hand and

checking a compass with the other on a pitching ocean with currents could 
actually navigate more accurately then an aircraft making a straight-in 
approach (even with the thunderstorm cell taken into account)???

J Donovan