Weeeeel gofer, just one more eeeny teeny tiny thingy, V1 speed in a MD80 (or any other airliner for that matter) won´t be 200 kts. In a MD 80 loaded like SK686 it would be somewhere around 130 kts and a Vr around 138 kts. Please ya´ll, give or take some knots. I don´t have the books handy here.

Otherwise gofer, I´m impressed. Good info!

Weeeeelll... :) Interesting, but involving so much finger waving and kludge factors that I think the actual calculations are a bit irrelevant. Not to mention the fact that what happens after the transmission has left the aircraft's antenna is beside the point, as it's on its way and there ain't nothing gonna stop it even if the plane crashes immediately thereafter.

I agree approximately with the conclusion though. The whole process couldn't have taken more than a couple of seconds, if that. This isn't a VLF data link like they have on nuclear subs!!

This is all a bit of a moot point, however, because it seems that the transmission dd arrive, so it obviously was possible!

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[ 11 October 2001: Message edited by: Sick Squid ]