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Forum: Rumours & News
16th Jun 2014, 05:29
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

Is this a guess or has this actually been...

Is this a guess or has this actually been confirmed by a real world test?
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Apr 2014, 18:39
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

That's the wrong question. Let me tell you what I...

That's the wrong question. Let me tell you what I think is extremely frightening. I think it's extremely frightening when people obsess about the last accident as an excuse to avoid thinking about a...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Apr 2014, 01:54
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

Partial Ping and Fuel Starvation

I noticed there was a dispute a few days ago about the "partial ping" and fuel starvation and I agree with Porterhouse that this is unlikely. The reason is that even assuming there was enough...
Forum: Rumours & News
31st Mar 2014, 05:04
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

No. Swift will only attempt to forward the data...

No. Swift will only attempt to forward the data via any connection if the airline has subscribed.

No. Details about the subscription is located in the FMS on the plane.

Malaysia Airlines...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Mar 2014, 18:30
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

@dataq1 post #8850 If the ground station...

@dataq1 post #8850

If the ground station initiates the ping then the inconsistent time intervals indicate some issue with the ground station, not with the plane. The question why would SW that is...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Mar 2014, 17:28
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

Has that been established? The last time I looked...

Has that been established? The last time I looked at this thread last week I thought there was agreement that the satellite initiated the handshake.

As for the two minute intervals that looks...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Mar 2014, 17:41
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

If I understand the complaint correctly, the...

If I understand the complaint correctly, the complaint is based upon a fundamental error. The 40 degree arc that is plotted on a map is a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Mar 2014, 17:35
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

The 40 degree arc is based upon the altitude of...

The 40 degree arc is based upon the altitude of the plane at the LKP. That's why the satellite polling the device terminal has to contain altitude data. The physical radius of the radio waves (the...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Mar 2014, 03:55
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

This thought occurred to me too but Immarsat...

This thought occurred to me too but Immarsat swears that it is absolutely certain they have the right device ID for the terminal. If it turns out they are wrong there are going to be some very very...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Mar 2014, 17:42
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

I believe their data. It's the fact that they are...

I believe their data. It's the fact that they are not accident investigators that concerns me. Any good accident investigator knows to be wary of projecting their own bias onto the data instead of...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Mar 2014, 17:05
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

I agree, this is what I meant by it gets...

I agree, this is what I meant by it gets complicated quickly. There's a lot of different parameters that can influence ping time beside distance alone.

Let me give a wild example that I personally...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Mar 2014, 16:29
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

odd

That's an odd choice of a word. I assume that by longer he means the time delays between each hourly ping, in milliseconds. If so, it is wrong to construe that delay with distance alone. Ping time...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Mar 2014, 00:32
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

SSDs are actually easier to recover erased data...

SSDs are actually easier to recover erased data from than magnetic based drives, a little appreciated truth. However, because of the way that consumer SSDs are designed this recovered data tends to...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 22:59
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

Oi vey

MISSING MH370: ACARS cannot be disabled - Latest - New Straits Times (http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-color-red-missing-mh370-font-acars-cannot-be-disabled-1.521314?)

According to this article...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 19:01
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

But that isn't the biggest problem with the fire...

But that isn't the biggest problem with the fire theory. The biggest problem is that the fire has to meet two conditions.

(a) the fire had to burn such it disabled the power to certain electrical...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 18:46
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

@elephant

On the contrary, it works exactly like the way I stated because there is no one right way to ask statistical questions. Both questions are legitimate statistical questions. The issue then becomes...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 07:10
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

On the contrary, many of us do realize that. The...

On the contrary, many of us do realize that. The question must be put, however, is what are the odds of both of them failing on the same flight within minutes of each other? How often has that...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Mar 2014, 04:14
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

Sure, anything is possible. It also possible that...

Sure, anything is possible. It also possible that the disconnection of the transponder and ACARs is a red herring. After all, it exists within the realm of imagination that both the transponder and...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Mar 2014, 23:42
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

Fire

I was one of the first people to bring up the possibility of fire many days ago. i reject that hypothesis now. The problem is the simple and basic truth that at 8:11 AM, seven hours later, the...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Mar 2014, 23:05
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

@vapilot. What about the possibility of spoofing,...

@vapilot. What about the possibility of spoofing, rather than changing, the identifier?
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Mar 2014, 22:47
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

NO The last known ping was at 8:11 am the...

NO


The last known ping was at 8:11 am the next morning, seven hours later. That ping means that aircraft MUST have been at least at that point. Given the fuel range, we can say for certain that...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Mar 2014, 03:57
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

Devil What if it's never found?

Given the new information and the resulting huge search area it strikes me that it has become much more likely that the plane and passengers are never going to be found, that we may never know why,...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Mar 2014, 18:19
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

define ping

The term "ping" doesn't refer to a particular mode of transmission but a particular type of transmission. That is, a ping refers to the content of the data packet. A ping is either some version of an...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Mar 2014, 01:29
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

That all depends on the nature of the fire and...

That all depends on the nature of the fire and where it began. Contrary to assertions it doesn't require a "raging" fire or "molten metal" to take out the comm systems. It is possible that some of...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Mar 2014, 21:39
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

Actually, an electrical fire would explain all of...

Actually, an electrical fire would explain all of those things. For one, if there is an electrical fire (or a suspect electrical fire) turning off power to the affected system is exactly the right...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Mar 2014, 06:19
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

It is also possible that the US Government has...

It is also possible that the US Government has military capability that they do not want to talk about publicly. In other words, the data sent by Boeing is simple "I'm alive" data for...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Mar 2014, 02:11
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

No it isn't. There are damn good reasons why no...

No it isn't. There are damn good reasons why no one cared before and those damn good reasons will continue to exist after the cause of this accident has been determined.

The fact is that the...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Mar 2014, 18:38
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

In theory, no. Those bags are supposed to be...

In theory, no. Those bags are supposed to be removed if the passenger doesn't actually board the airplane. But if one of the ground crew were to "look the other way" then it might be possible to...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Mar 2014, 17:45
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

First, total ADR failure is wildly improbable. ...

First, total ADR failure is wildly improbable.
Second, even when it has happened it is still possible to fly the plane by turning the systems off.
Third, as such incidents have shown with ADR...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Mar 2014, 04:34
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,158,147
Posted By MountainBear

Framer. There was a software fix. ...

Framer. There was a software fix.

http://www.atsb.gov.au/media/24550/aair200503722_001.pdf

That's the report.
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