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Old 16th Mar 2014, 02:36
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Originally Posted by The Wawa Zone
acad_1, the answer would be if a normal ACARS shutdown automatically sends a 'logging off now, bye' style of message or just goes Off like a transponder being turned off. Can someone on the usual receiving end of ACARS messages answer that ?

Northern or Southern arc ? By now, using earlier arcs and knowing the speed range out of the last primary fix near IGREX, the RCC should have calculated that one.

So, are SAR assets being deployed to the southern Indian Ocean, or not ??

Another question ! Did the aircraft actually fly through the VAMPI - GIVAL wpts and track out along the published routes, or were those wpts given as approxiamations of some wandering track ? That answer would infer a lot about LNAV 'piloting' or 'wandering'. Also, is any RMAF AD radar VNAV info out there (?), ie., were the 90 degree+ turns at/near the waypoints painted at a constant altitude, or at the high points of some phugoid ? (and you know what that means..)

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Just after the 1st maps of the arcs came out way back today within a few pages that question arose and the answer was if ACARS is shut down the selected transmitter (only vhf on this aircraft) would send a signal stating ACARS turned off, if it just died i assume it wouldn't, he/they (who ever was flying it) couldn't turn off VHF 10 min earlier as still had to sign off from KL.

ACARS turned off according to a recent post because it would have sent out a depressurisation message, and the theory is he wanted that done before stating the navigation manoeuvres. Makes good sense to me.

200 pages in and someone adds the new fact about the depressure message would go out on ACARS.
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