Thats "a" or "n" --- not "r"

Jim

Jim Stewart wrote:
Don Foreman wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:17:19 -0500, "Phil Kangas"
wrote:


The other evening on the TV show fear factor one of the
stunts involved driving a car blindfolded with the passenger
giving directions on which way to turn and whether to speed
up or slow down with the intent of driving up a ramp onto a
flatbed trailer! All of the drivers had a very difficult
time taking
these directions and it was hilarious! Now I'm thinking what
can be so hard about this? Is it something mental? How
would you prefer to have directions given to you in that
situation?Some drivers were told to go left and instead
went into a right turn and stayed in it. Funny. Is it best
if
the driver were given status reports on current position
or should the passenger give reports on the next future
move? If I were driving I would put my hands at ten and two
and make small corrections returning the wheel to straight
ahead till the next report. Could be challenging for sure!
This stunt shows us how much we depend on visual input, eih?
Phil



Might just be bandwidth. Words take too much time. Imagine something
that would emit one tone if you were off to the left, a different tone
if you were off to the right, with volume or warble rate proportional
to error magnitude.


You are describing, almost exactly, an early instrument
flying technique. Flying down the center of the beam,
the pilot hears a steady tone. Drift right or left and
he hears a Morse "r" or "a" character in the headset.

I flew left seat in a helicopter once and gave
the pilot verbal directions to get to a destination.
"right 15 degrees", "left 10 degrees", got there
with very little deviation.


If it were female, it would screech if you're following too close....