Anime Discussion Thread - Page 1012

And then there's random shit that doesn't make sense. For instance, apparently a Boeing 747 can survive a missile hit because it's "cutting edge technology". So commercial aircraft are now built to military spec? Cool.

At one point, Aria has to fly a passenger jet and does so, stating that she's flown small aircraft before. Believe me when I say it's not the same thing. There's a world of difference between flying a single engine Cessna and a damaged multi-engine passenger jet. And of course the autopilot is broken (which is actually believable, since it's not really designed to survive missile strikes even if the rest of the plane can somehow withstand the damage).

Also, the author has no idea how aircraft radios work, and it's pretty apparent that he didn't bother to research it either. He set the radio from transmit to receive? What the hell? If you're not transmitting, you're automatically receiving. And then the MC tells the controller to "connect him to the frequencies of all the aircraft in the area" so that he can use his superpowers to learn to fly a plane by listening to 11 pilots at once. Except that 1) each aircraft isn't assigned a specific radio frequency because that'd be retarded. The whole point of radio is to let other aircraft know what you're going to do. Being isolated in your own frequency kinda defeats that purpose. Normally, all aircraft will be on the tower frequency when in the vicinity of the airport, or on the specified IFR channel. And 2) YOU CAN'T HAVE 11 PEOPLE TRANSMITTING AT THE SAME TIME. You know what happens when two people transmit at once? Their signals will overlap and interfere with each other, and the result is a single, very messed up waveform. And when the radio detects that signal, it will kindly output a very high pitched, very annoying screech.

And then as the plane slowly descends toward its doom, the JSDF decides to show up and the MC brilliantly deduces that they're going to shoot down the plane so that it doesn't crash into Tokyo and cause thousands of casualties. (how's that for quick decision making? The Japanese gov't sure is efficient) He promptly decides to fly over the city so that they can't shoot him down. You have no idea how badly I wished for Kiritsugu to be there with a Stinger or two to sacrifice those lives for the greater good.

And finally, the way the MC lands the plane was pretty funny. He basically crashes the wing into a wind turbine so that the plane spins. I like to think that he killed half the passengers onboard by causing pieces of shrapnel to ripping through the fuselage.

So basically, as a pilot, this LN is an atrocity.