Re: Time Variance Regarding Helicopter

In article <1348231@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, ddl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> In article <MPG.229630017908c4d298a0e3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
buffhunter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Hunter) writes:
> 
> | Frank did say "...Hey, Faraday told me as long as I stayed on the
vector...=
> | " but he=20
> | is mistaken, he didn't. He believes so because he probably thinks he
went o=
> | ff course=20
> | by only 5 degrees and only a few seconds but it was enough to scramble
Desm=
> | ond's=20
> | brain. He didn't think it was *THAT* im****tant but it was. Faraday as
a sci=
> | entist is=20
> | just more percise than Frank the Airline/chopper pilot. Sure pilots
are per=
> | cise too,=20
> | but to them a five degree variation in course for only a few seconds
isn't =
> | that big a=20
> | deal. To faraday it was. It was a misunderstanding between "cultures"
"Scie=
> | nce geek"=20
> | and "pilot jock". To a science geek if you are off by an inch you got
to do=
> |  the=20
> | experiment over again. That is what Frank didn't get.
> 
> (Not disagreeing that going off course caused the problem, but...)
> 
> If Faraday were a real scientist he would have specified the allowable
> variance from the heading either as a percentage or as an absolute
number
> of degrees.  He would also explain whether there is a time-compounding
effect
> of being off course.  Telling Frank to stay "exactly" on a particular
heading
> is meaningless since the mechanical realities of the helicopter and the
> available resolution of the indicator will always make this impossible. 
I
> expect Sayid is going to have even more trouble with the raft.
---
Well I think that Faraday took into account the ability to maintain a
straight flight 
plan with the instraments involved. In other words I believe that Farady
knew how 
good a pilot Frank was he flew with him after all-so I am sure he was sure
that Frank 
would be able to keep on course within a degree or so of flight. And Frank
was doing 
it. He kept the compass needle exactly on 305 it was the storm that pushed
him off. I 
was on him for perhaps not reacting faster. Once that needle started
moving he should 
had had both hands on the joystick (incidently I don't fly so...). As for
Sayid, you 
may be right, so I have to chalk that up to dramatic license. Of course I
am writing 
this after we saw Faraday ferry Jin, Sun, Aaron and others back to the
****p.  
> 
> Two other things bothered me. Was the course on Faraday's "cheat sheet"
> more complicated than a single heading?  I didn't get a good look at it;
> can someone check?
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Here is a screen capture of it:

http://bp0.blogger.com/_xsmMry8awD0/R8fJkviN1eI/AAAAAAAABI0/3qkkQkUtZts/s1600-
h/02.jpg

If the link doesn't work cut and past it into the address line of your
browser.
>
> It's very convenient that the ****p is stuck in a position
> that allows the required heading for going to and from the island to
actually
> take you... to and from the island.  I assume they had positioned
themselves
> there before Michael sabotaged the engines.
---
Yes. I am sure Faraday chose the coordinates. I am equally sure he knew
exactly where 
the Gate, as I call it, was. 
>
> Had he sabotaged the engines a
> bit earlier he might have better accomplished his goal. In particular,
if
> you are close enough to the island that the magic heading is already
required
> to avoid side effects but you are not on a line along that heading
relative
> to the island you might be in trouble.
> 
> 				Dan Lanciani
> 				ddl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 don't think he had a larger goal in mind past sabotaging the engines. 
-- 
----->Hunter

"No man in the wrong can stand up against 
 a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."

               -----William J. McDonald
           Captain, Texas Rangers from 1891 to 1907