Thanx for the timely response - and apologies for the sluggishness of mine.
There aren't any clearly delineated antagonists per say, not in the conventional cinematic sense anyways. The a/c of my work has a properly functioning transponder which is turned on and squawking the assigned code. However, this is of little use or comfort to the current-era crew of said a/c as they and their craft - sans warning, reason or immediate knowledge - are cruising above an Earth 55 years older than the one they had departed only moments before. Technologies old and new fail to mesh resulting in the plane being marked and tracked as an intruder.
I know, numerous plot holes and tech issues are readily apparent but this work is currently quite raw - bleeding, really. Any apparent witholding on my part stems not from proprietary caginess but from something I learned years ago: energy expended on the description of a given project is subtracted from the work itself twofold. Well, that and the fact that the greater share of my aviation knowledge is derived from my experience as a passenger on all of four commercial flights. Though I did have a window seat one one of these...
Oh, yes ---- if I may return to my first question:
A 7nm segment of ground track is covered in one minute by an a/c travelling at 420 knots. If a/c moving at 420 knots for one minute only covers 4nm could this serve to indicate an altitude change? Or perhaps I should ask - is this scenario even possible?
Again, thanx much,
Stephen
Last edited by SCBearden; 7th March 2006 at 13:57.