This quote was aimed at a poor soul wading into the conversation:
The much bigger problem a lot of the time is not understanding language, or rather, what the vast majority of entire countries/specialist communities understand by a phrase, compared to what others elsewhere might understand.
We are not actually talking about 'catching up' here, but about reducing the gap enough to get into firing range. That may be one misunderstanding.
You cannot reduce the gap in the same direction as a target flying straight, but you can reduce sideways/vertical separations over a large distance travelled for very little loss by flying almost parallel.
So, how do you find out the target's course? Well, one way is to briefly fly at the target. You will notice you must change course to stay fixed. Simply change your course by a bit more than this bit by bit until the distance between you no longer changes. This is parallel flight. Then decide how efficiently (long distance) you need to make the chase in order to get into firing range and angle back in a bit towards your target.
I hope this makes sense to people (language + geometry)!
After that we can use common understanding of the basics to then assess what is possibly different about x,y,z in MA's world .
I'm not good at math btw, but to make a fool of yourself page after page by not understanding simple geometry, that's a whole new level. Cheers to those few who're not painfully stupid, pirates or not!
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The much bigger problem a lot of the time is not understanding language, or rather, what the vast majority of entire countries/specialist communities understand by a phrase, compared to what others elsewhere might understand.
We are not actually talking about 'catching up' here, but about reducing the gap enough to get into firing range. That may be one misunderstanding.
You cannot reduce the gap in the same direction as a target flying straight, but you can reduce sideways/vertical separations over a large distance travelled for very little loss by flying almost parallel.
So, how do you find out the target's course? Well, one way is to briefly fly at the target. You will notice you must change course to stay fixed. Simply change your course by a bit more than this bit by bit until the distance between you no longer changes. This is parallel flight. Then decide how efficiently (long distance) you need to make the chase in order to get into firing range and angle back in a bit towards your target.
I hope this makes sense to people (language + geometry)!
After that we can use common understanding of the basics to then assess what is possibly different about x,y,z in MA's world .
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