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Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Sep 2014, 07:16
Replies: 11,831
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Posted By hamster3null

That's what they are saying. It corrects for its...

That's what they are saying. It corrects for its own ground speed, and the only reason why we have any meaningful data at all is that it corrects based on the assumption that the satellite is...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Sep 2014, 22:44
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

According to ATSB, aircraft systems don't...

According to ATSB, aircraft systems don't compensate for vertical velocity at all. (Unlike horizontal velocity, which is compensated for, but with assumptions about stationary satellite.)...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Aug 2014, 23:57
Replies: 11,831
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Posted By hamster3null

We have a bunch of packets at 18:28 with BFOs...

We have a bunch of packets at 18:28 with BFOs consistent with being on the northwesterly heading.

There are other possible interpretations - BFOs are strongly affected by vertical speed, so it...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Aug 2014, 01:25
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

I'm not sure how you get 441 kt (I get ~360), but...

I'm not sure how you get 441 kt (I get ~360), but yes, that's more or less what it means. BFO 88 Hz is in line with later BFO points and it's a good indication that the turn south was completed by...
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Jul 2014, 04:20
Replies: 11,831
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Posted By hamster3null

As the Wikipedia link says, the rhumb line...

As the Wikipedia link says, the rhumb line reaches the pole in a finite distance. It is relatively intuitive. When you are moving along the rhumb line, you have to travel fixed distance for every...
Forum: Rumours & News
29th May 2014, 07:45
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

Do you have access to full-resolution image from...

Do you have access to full-resolution image from which this was cut?

The "02:07:06" point is not aligned with the rest of the track and may be an unrelated aircraft (maybe SQ68 or UAE343) or just...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th May 2014, 17:53
Replies: 11,831
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Posted By hamster3null

I see no radar sweep dots either. But I just...

I see no radar sweep dots either.

But I just came to the same realization as Shadoko - most of the greenish-yellow dots in that screenshot are not tracks but pixelized text labels.
...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th May 2014, 06:39
Replies: 11,831
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Posted By hamster3null

The course from 18:03 to 18:22 is not exactly...

The course from 18:03 to 18:22 is not exactly toward the satellite. The aircraft was going at heading 285..295 and the satellite was at the heading 262..265 and high in the sky. I just don't see a...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th May 2014, 03:32
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

If the system was not responding to...

If the system was not responding to interrogations at 18:03 and it initiated a logon at 18:25, the logical conclusion is that it was physically shut down from the cockpit at some point prior to 18:03...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th May 2014, 03:15
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

In all likelihood, someone at Malaysian Airlines...

In all likelihood, someone at Malaysian Airlines trying to figure out where the plane is. This is 45 minutes after its scheduled arrival in Beijing.
Forum: Rumours & News
8th May 2014, 19:20
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

He got "your story is wrong but we won't tell you...

He got "your story is wrong but we won't tell you why it's wrong". The technical term for this is "stonewalling". If I were him, I would have published too. The conclusion - that 'until officials...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th May 2014, 20:27
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

All aircraft that ever enter the U.S. airspace...

All aircraft that ever enter the U.S. airspace (it would be pretty safe to presume that it means all 777's) are required by 47 CFR 87.145(d) 47 CFR 87.145 - Acceptability of transmitters for...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd May 2014, 21:28
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

Technically true. However, lithium batteries...

Technically true. However, lithium batteries don't contain metallic lithium. They (typically) contain lithium cobalt oxide, which is, I believe, chemically inert with regard to water.

The general...
Forum: Rumours & News
1st May 2014, 17:24
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

I understand the cargo manifest to mean that the...

I understand the cargo manifest to mean that the shipment 232-10677085 was a consolidation shipment consisting of 133 boxes of "something" (average weight of 15 kg per box), stacked as a PMC pallet,...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Apr 2014, 20:31
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

Consider this. From the radar, I have the...

Consider this.

From the radar, I have the location of the turn roughly at 18:30 at 6.7N 95.5E, which gives me initial satellite elevation 53.2°. Final satellite elevation is 40°. We can calculate...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Apr 2014, 18:24
Replies: 11,831
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Posted By hamster3null

It's a good observation. But I have two points to...

It's a good observation. But I have two points to make:

* If you do a least mean square fit for all points except around 120 min, I think you'll find a scaling factor that is somewhere above 0.25...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Apr 2014, 06:48
Replies: 11,831
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Posted By hamster3null

MH370, Inmarsat: The fuzzy math behind the search...

MH370, Inmarsat: The fuzzy math behind the search for the missing airliner....
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Apr 2014, 23:58
Replies: 11,831
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Posted By hamster3null

In order for the signal to be transmitted, at...

In order for the signal to be transmitted, at least one engine has to be running, which would, needless to say, be pretty hard to square with slow immersion in a shallow liquid. (Or with a land crash...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Apr 2014, 23:49
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

A while back I posted a link here to an accident...

A while back I posted a link here to an accident where an Indian Air Force aircraft with 100 people on board crashed in the Himalayas, 30 km from the nearest town, and it took 35 years for someone to...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Apr 2014, 18:38
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

25 meg per hour is 7 kilobytes per second (56...

25 meg per hour is 7 kilobytes per second (56 Kbps) per aircraft. Existing satellite internet networks can absorb that without breaking a sweat.

Also, most of this stuff is highly optional and...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Apr 2014, 17:46
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

To speak figuratively, you're imagining a...

To speak figuratively, you're imagining a "totalitarian state", where you should be seeing a patchwork of chiefdoms which grudgingly deal with each other when they have to, but generally don't like...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Apr 2014, 20:35
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

Right. Now let's say that you can narrow...

Right.

Now let's say that you can narrow down the burn rate and speed to the point where you're certain that it's not yellow track, and it's closer to purple to red. (After all, fuel burn and...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Apr 2014, 03:18
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

Let me clarify my point. The "original"...

Let me clarify my point.

The "original" southern track scenario, with the crash in the roaring 40's, was weird but at least could make some sense in the way you describe: as a disappearance...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Apr 2014, 23:40
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

There are two air routes in the area. One, as...

There are two air routes in the area. One, as mentioned by Double07, is L894. The other is further north, M641 through IKASA and UXORA.

Haixun 01 reported hearing pings ~150 nm off L694. Ocean...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Apr 2014, 19:44
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

By "ran", do you mean on the cable channel? It's...

By "ran", do you mean on the cable channel? It's not in the linked video.
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Apr 2014, 07:09
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

As commented above, if last known radar contact...

As commented above, if last known radar contact is near NILAM and MH370 wasn't visible to Indonesian radars at that point, it's pretty straightforward to get from NILAM to 20.8S 104.1E in less than...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Apr 2014, 05:22
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

There seems to be a problem here. Australian call...

There seems to be a problem here. Australian call it flameout from fuel exhaustion. But, after flameout at cruise altitude, the aircraft would continue to glide for some time and would go down at ...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Apr 2014, 21:45
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

It's more of a "crystal" than...

It's more of a "crystal" than "crystal-controlled", I think. It's an IC generating short square-wave "chirps", ~10 ms long, modulated with a 37.5 kHz wave, which then drives a piezoelectric crystal...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Apr 2014, 19:47
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

Carboxyhemoglobin occurs naturally in the blood...

Carboxyhemoglobin occurs naturally in the blood and its levels can be further elevated in smokers. So you can detect an exposure that is high enough to cause acute poisoning, but you can't...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Apr 2014, 17:59
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

Hypertonic or not, salt water is still basically...

Hypertonic or not, salt water is still basically water and electrolytes, I don't think that it would mess with lactate, except through simple diffusion.

I'm skeptical about these tests too but...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Apr 2014, 21:25
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

That's not the point. The point is that, if big...

That's not the point. The point is that, if big boys get to the spot and find no trace of a ping, this could still be considered a legitimate finding and absence of the signal could be explained...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Apr 2014, 23:08
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

Even Malaysian investigators can't figure out the...

Even Malaysian investigators can't figure out the "who". And they have far better knowledge of everyone on board than we do. They can't find anyone on the passenger list with terrorist connections or...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Apr 2014, 07:27
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

I stand corrected. In either case, after...

I stand corrected. In either case, after successful interrogations at 19:41, 20:41, 21:41 and 22:41, the gap at 23:41 is at least curious. Especially since 23:41 is middle of the night for most of...
Forum: Rumours & News
1st Apr 2014, 07:52
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

I see two large potential problems here. 1....

I see two large potential problems here.

1. By all indications, the aircraft either ran out of fuel, or in any event came within 1 hour from running out of fuel. What's the point of taking the...
Forum: Rumours & News
31st Mar 2014, 20:36
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,293,296
Posted By hamster3null

The document referenced above says it's 1730 m...

The document referenced above says it's 1730 m lateral to either side of the tow line, accounting for the distance from the TPL to the seabed.

I'm not sure everyone appreciates how big a haystack...
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