16 Feb 2014 8:52 am
OK. Here are your questions:
Q: What's the average altitude of plane that starts and 20,000 feet and begins to nosedive?
A: There is insufficient data to calculate an average. Nonsense question.
Q: What's the average altitude of same plane after a competent pilot takes over at 5,000 feet and brings it back up to 15,000 feet?
A: How long does each part take, what is the rate of descent and what is the rate of ascent? Given that, we can arrive at an average. Insufficient data.
Q: And who's the better pilot, the one who almost crashed the plane or the one who saved it?
A: Insufficient data. Depends on the reason for the nosedive and what happened to the original pilot. In your scenario it could even be the same pilot who had just been to take a leak.
There you go.
Your turn.
Q: What's the average altitude of plane that starts and 20,000 feet and begins to nosedive?
A: There is insufficient data to calculate an average. Nonsense question.
Q: What's the average altitude of same plane after a competent pilot takes over at 5,000 feet and brings it back up to 15,000 feet?
A: How long does each part take, what is the rate of descent and what is the rate of ascent? Given that, we can arrive at an average. Insufficient data.
Q: And who's the better pilot, the one who almost crashed the plane or the one who saved it?
A: Insufficient data. Depends on the reason for the nosedive and what happened to the original pilot. In your scenario it could even be the same pilot who had just been to take a leak.
There you go.
Your turn.