Capt. Neville
Regular
I thought the Cylons just showed up every thirty-three minutes.... and while it did take time for the jumps to be calculated and that information given out at the last possible moment so the ships being tracked couldn't be tracked, and some ships took longer than others to get ready to jump... that's all the time they had.
33 minutes was basically the time it took for the Cylons to trace where they had jumped to next. So the Cylons catch them, they jump away, and they have 33 minutes to get everyone coordinated again before the Cylons trace where they went to and find them again. Also, I'm not sure if that episode itself is what established it, but it has been shown before that most of the setup time is getting the fleet coordinated (think beginning of season 2, where they didn't bother to make sure everyone was coordinated--they all jumped away pretty fast, but Galactica and the fleet got separated completely). Or it could be partially the time the civilian craft FTL drives take to spin back up, since they're not military-grade.
Either way, I don't think the Adama Maneuver violated any existing FTL/jump drive laws we've been shown thus far. Even the fact that they can jump into as well as out of an atmo isn't really against continuity--as Adama very succinctly showed, it's just not something that's really recommended
--mcn