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Forum: Rumours & News
11th Apr 2014, 15:44
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

I'm not entirely sure how they will show anything...

I'm not entirely sure how they will show anything of the sort.

Even if the CVR recording from the initial phase of the flight could be recovered, short of lots of coughing or someone within range...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Apr 2014, 14:45
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

Given that MAS fly a scheduled non-stop service...

Given that MAS fly a scheduled non-stop service from KUL-PER (MH125) I'd say there was an excellent chance that the route was available in the FMC.
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Apr 2014, 16:52
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

Niner Lima

Rudder? :ugh:
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Apr 2014, 19:58
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

ULBs

I doubt it.

Unless the two signals are modulated in some way I would say that they are identical. Besides, does it matter which unit is transmitting as long as one of them is found?



I would...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Apr 2014, 15:08
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

I assume what he meant by 'known' was that it has...

I assume what he meant by 'known' was that it has happened before on a triple-seven therefore you can't rule out it happening again.

re. 'tamper proof' communications devices, an onboard battery...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Apr 2014, 16:08
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

If this vessel is ploughing its own furrow miles...

If this vessel is ploughing its own furrow miles away from the main search sites, I'd say it was highly unlikely they would be detecting a 'test tone' from another ship.

I would also like to think...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Apr 2014, 14:01
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

90 seconds?

If the ULB is working properly and is 'pinging' once a second then a chain of 90 pings suggests that if this is MH370, they are dragging their microphone on the outer edge of a dome centred on the...
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Mar 2014, 15:40
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

As well as what Coagie said it takes...

As well as what Coagie said it takes proportionately more power to generate and transmit an 11KHz signal than it does a 37.5KHz one, therefore for a given amount of power the 11KHz will be sustained...
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Mar 2014, 14:49
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

ULB

There has been some discussion on here about making the ULB an 'active' system where it scans for an 'initiation' signal from searchers and then replies, therefore extending battery life.

What can...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Mar 2014, 13:51
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

It doesn't! :ugh:

It doesn't! :ugh:
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Mar 2014, 11:52
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

rubberband2

Answers:

1. The onboard SATCOM terminal

2. ACARS via one of the VHF transmitters.

3. The Rolls Royce data engine monitoring transmissions ceased when ACARS was disabled.

The SATCOM...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Mar 2014, 13:09
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

Tedious as it may be, locating the wreckage...

Tedious as it may be, locating the wreckage through floating debris then backtracking to the crash site is still going to be the quickest way. Anything else is just a guess.

All Inmarsat data can...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Mar 2014, 12:55
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

Innocent use of a deletion tool.

I'm sure there are plenty of people using deletion tools for completely innocent purposes.

A friend of mine who works in the AV world uses one all the time. He has SD cards to record SD and HD...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Mar 2014, 11:35
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

Mobile Phone Survivability?

One thing which nobody seems to have mentioned so far is the possible use of onboard images and audio recorded on passenger and crew mobile phones in any investigation.

Many on here are agreed...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Mar 2014, 13:55
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

No, she moved out of the family home the day...

No, she moved out of the family home the day before the flight. As you say, they were already separated.
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Mar 2014, 09:03
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

The aircraft did not fly down the arc. The arc...

The aircraft did not fly down the arc. The arc represents the possible range of locations when the final 'ping' was received.
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Mar 2014, 10:46
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

Many thousands of posts ago, someone published...

Many thousands of posts ago, someone published the price per litre at PEK vs the price at KUL. This along with the assumption that Malaysian receives a 'significant' discount as a state owned* flag...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Mar 2014, 12:36
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

It doesn't, it prioritises what comes first!

It doesn't, it prioritises what comes first!
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Mar 2014, 12:04
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

And to those who dismiss the various hypoxia...

And to those who dismiss the various hypoxia theories simply because the cabin altitude warning could not be ignored, there may have been a whole heap of other alerts and warnings going off at the...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Mar 2014, 10:55
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

max nightstop

To be fair, it was debunked two weeks ago when it was discovered that ACARS doesn't send changes of waypoints in the FMC without them being executed.
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Mar 2014, 10:06
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

A VERY approximate path and only then after...

A VERY approximate path and only then after making big assumptions about altitude and heading. And given that the satellite was over the equator, the two sets of 'ping arcs' mirror each other exactly...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Mar 2014, 09:49
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

Exactly! It was lovely to see footage of the...

Exactly!

It was lovely to see footage of the various SAR crews standing shoulder to shoulder with each other, holding their national flags at Pearce RAAF base.

Stuff their corrupt leaders!...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Mar 2014, 09:29
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

It is not a parameter on any DFDR.

It is not a parameter on any DFDR.
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Mar 2014, 09:03
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

Non of us are qualified to determine whether...

Non of us are qualified to determine whether Captain Zaharie was suicidal or not, but from what we know about his devotion to aviation, I find it very difficult to believe that he would harm either...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Mar 2014, 13:29
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

Google Maps

PilotsResearch, UnreliableSource, & mm_flynn, thank you for your replies.

I had always assumed that as you toggle between 'Map View' and 'Satellite View' on Google Maps, all images were from a...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Mar 2014, 18:30
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

No of course it doesn't! :ugh: A Great...

No of course it doesn't! :ugh:

A Great Circle track is a 'segment' originating roughly from the centre of the earth.

These arcs are segments exactly centred at the satellite sending and...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Mar 2014, 16:27
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the VHF ACARS...

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the VHF ACARS transmission uplinked from a ground station to the Inmarsat anyway so the fact that it is eventually received by the satellite doesn't necessarily mean...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Mar 2014, 15:57
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

Apart from the claimed PSR information of a climb...

Apart from the claimed PSR information of a climb to FL450 and a decent to FL295, there has been no confirmed reports of any varying altitude.

All we can say for definite is that if it continued...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Mar 2014, 15:44
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

Confirmation of previous Inmarsat 'pings'?

This information seems to have been missed by most posters on here. That would suggest to me that hourly pings were actually recorded and not overwritten.
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Mar 2014, 09:26
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

They are not. They are activated by a...

They are not.

They are activated by a g-switch which is one of the reasons why they are so unreliable.
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 15:26
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

I suspect that the Inmarsat 'ping' data was a...

I suspect that the Inmarsat 'ping' data was a victim of the backlash against the flood of unreliable information coming from the Malaysian authorities. At the time it was first offered, the...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 15:02
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

Detachable DFDRs

Can I remind those advocating 'detachable' DFDRs that apart from the obvious difficulty of the device extricating itself from a crushed wreckage, the idea is to locate the wreckage as well as the...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 12:19
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

Ping accuracy

Interesting!

Until now, most people with a knowledge of Inmarsat operation, latency and other errors have said that the 'ping distance' is accurate to +/- 5 km. If this new estimate of +/-...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 11:17
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

The Malaysian authorities confirmed that there...

The Malaysian authorities confirmed that there was nothing unusual about the fuel uptake for this flight and the perceived wisdom when this was discussed a few days ago, was that MAS would pay less...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 10:51
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,198,563
Posted By Speed of Sound

MH370 range

The return journey from KUL-PEK is around 4,600 miles so if MH370 was tankering fuel, with reserves, it could easily have travelled 7000 km.
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