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F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

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Re: F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

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Post by hef19898 »

null0ranje wrote: post #29
hoseja wrote: post #24

Why don't they fly with transponders on during training, precisely for this reason?

It was inop at the time: "The jet’s transponder, which usually helps locate the aircraft, was not working “for some reason that we haven’t yet determined,” said Jeremy Huggins, a spokesman at Joint Base Charleston. “So that’s why we put out the public request for help.”

Oh, someone sure is going to have to answer some tough questions. If not in purely military airspace, or combat operations, military aircraft have to be airworthy according to civil standards.

That being said, no casualties, loosing a stealth fighter is somewhat funny.

Re: F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

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Post by sschueller »

RetroTechie wrote: post #23
tornato7 wrote: post #3

Interesting. The article doesn't say why the pilot ejected. If the jet were able to continue flying for hours in autopilot, maybe the pilot ejected a bit prematurely, no? Though it it continued flying I would expect it to be on ADS-B.

I'd think there's clear procedures for pilot of such a craft? If x occurs & can't be fixed by doing y or z, then eject. > Though it it continued flying I would expect it to be on ADS-B. This is a military aircraft. Depending on its mission, transponders may or may not be enabled. What did surprise me: if a 2-plane mission, why didn't the other jet follow the now-empty one? As a opposed to landing right after. Low on…

With all the software issues how do we know the plane didn't just randomly eject the pilot due to some buffer overflow...

Re: F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

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Post by belter »

hef19898 wrote: post #30
belter wrote: post #4

If you happen to find it report here: https://twitter.com/TeamCharleston/status/170352338547553496... Please no jokes about losing a stealth fighter...

Aren't those F-39s invisible anyway?

We are looking for an F-35...You were not supposed to disclose the existance of the F-39 ;-)

Re: F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

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Post by SanderNL »

expertentipp wrote: post #12
brettermeier wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where are the parallels? I don't see them...

They operate in real time Reapers on the other side of the globe, have constellations of all kinds of satellites, they know from my iphone that my parents have just visited, yet state of the art F-35 "disappeared"?

Sometimes it's hard to just accept reality: even the big, mighty and omnipresent supernatural and all-knowing Government(tm) is just a bunch of non-magical, non-demonic regular folks trying to keep things on the rails. It usually works out OK, but there's a lot of rails and a lot of stuff to keep on them.

Re: F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

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Post by fransje26 »

sschueller wrote: post #32
RetroTechie wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd think there's clear procedures for pilot of such a craft? If x occurs & can't be fixed by doing y or z, then eject. > Though it it continued flying I would expect it to be on ADS-B. This is a military aircraft. Depending on its mission, transponders may or may not be enabled. What did surprise me: if a 2-plane mission, why didn't the other jet follow the now-empty one? As a opposed to landing right after. Low on…

With all the software issues how do we know the plane didn't just randomly eject the pilot due to some buffer overflow...

Add the transponder not working, and you come to the conclusion that the jet was operating exactly as it was supposed to, by design...

Re: F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

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Post by belter »

sschueller wrote: post #32
RetroTechie wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd think there's clear procedures for pilot of such a craft? If x occurs & can't be fixed by doing y or z, then eject. > Though it it continued flying I would expect it to be on ADS-B. This is a military aircraft. Depending on its mission, transponders may or may not be enabled. What did surprise me: if a 2-plane mission, why didn't the other jet follow the now-empty one? As a opposed to landing right after. Low on…

With all the software issues how do we know the plane didn't just randomly eject the pilot due to some buffer overflow...

Or the AI they were trying on decided so...
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