GR translation: jolts over a set of surprise points

[Mark Kohut]

The " surprise points" are the 1st and 99th percentile of a statistical distribution of possibilities. To " jolt over" would mean to maneuver in the 2% of situations not between the surprise points. 

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> On Aug 25, 2015, at 1:35 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Understood.  I think I have everything else figured out, but I can't find any reference for this last part.  
> 
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:38 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Highly technical jargon relating to plane acrobatics, like almost every word in the second half of this paragraph.  Not translatable into non-flight jargon in any language without becoming deadly technical, unless your language has such colorful parallel jargon.
>> 
>> David
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>> 
>>> On Monday, August 24, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> V619.16-32   Well, it’s an older Jug, one with a greenhouse canopy. The barred field of sight gives Pirate twinges of memory in his neck muscles. The plane seems permanently out of trim to him, though he still fiddles now and then with different tabs. Right now he’s trying the War Emergency Power to see how it works, even though there seems to be no War, no Emergency, keeping an eye on the panel, where RPMs, manifold pressure, and cylinder-head temperature are all nudging their red lines. He eases it down and flies on, and presently is trying a slow roll over Celle, then a loop over Brunswick, then, what the hell, an Immelmann over Magdeburg. On his back, molars aching in a grin, he starts his roll a hair too slow, just this side of one-thirty, and nearly stalls it, jolts over a set of surprise points—finish it as an ordinary loop or go for the Immelmann?—already reaching for ailerons, forget the damn rudder, a spin isn’t worth worrying about . . . but at the last second does give the pedal just a touch anyway, a minor compromise (I’m nearly forty, good God, is it happening to me too?) and rolls himself upright again. It had to
>>> be the Immelmann.
>>> 
>>> What are "surprise points"?
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