What do you all make of this??
I can make a hat, a brooch, or a pterodactyl...
Can you provide a link or quote for this report? The captain's sim may just have a large generic database, world wide charts now easily fit on a 16 GB tablet computer. Many legacy FMS boxes still have memories measured in megabytes, not gigabytes however. I'm thinking he had at least a 256 GB SSD drive in his computer from the Facebook pictures.
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Just found this:
Malaysia Cops find five Indian Ocean practice runways in MH370 pilot’s simulator, BH reports
March 18, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 ― Investigators have discovered the runways of five airports near the Indian Ocean loaded into Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s home-made flight simulator, a Malay daily reported today.
An unnamed source told Berita Harian that while it was too early to make any conclusions on the new finding, it was still considered an important element in the probe on the whereabouts of the plane and its 239 people.
“The simulation programmes are based on runways at the Male International Airport in Maldives, an airport owned by the United States (Diego Garcia), and three other runways in India and Sri Lanka, all have runway lengths of 1,000 metres.
“We are not discounting the possibility that the plane landed on a runway that might not be heavily monitored, in addition to the theories that the plane landed on sea, in the hills, or in an open space,” the source was quoted as saying.
Although Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein denied yesterday that the plane had landed at US military base Diego Garcia, the source told the daily that this possibility will still be investigated based on the data found in Zaharie’s flight simulator software...
Cops find five Indian Ocean practice runways in MH370 pilot?s simulator, BH reports | Malaysia | The Malay Mail Online