There's another little problem with the dragon ride. Now, I know she doesn't make it clear exactly how high they are, but as you gain altitude, not only does it get colder, but you start to get low on oxygen. Now, it's been way too long since my couple of rides in a little Cessna, but I don't recall the plane being heated or terribly cold. Sure, in a plane you're out of the wind, but it still adds to my confusion about this dragon flight. I'm not sure how much higher than a small (non-pressurized) plane an animal, especially one that's likely cold-blooded, would fly. But I do have this funny feeling that if you get too far into cold air, you're also going to be getting into thin air. (And, for another airplane comparison, that British pilot who was sucked halfway out of the cockpit back in 1990 passed out from lack of oxygen and cold...hell, they thought he was dead...and the co-pilot got the plane down to safe oxygen height pretty quickly.)
Actually, this may be more about how bored I was when I read the chapter and less about the dragon flight itself. Or I just wanted them to suffer oxygen deprivation and fall off. I was pretty sick of the Trio myself. -_-
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Date: 2008-02-04 08:41 am (UTC)Actually, this may be more about how bored I was when I read the chapter and less about the dragon flight itself. Or I just wanted them to suffer oxygen deprivation and fall off. I was pretty sick of the Trio myself. -_-