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Excuse me sir, it is: SENIOR OTL-QA-TEPH
Sounds like a Mayan diety.
Or a Jedi master.
Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
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Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like the need for qualified pilots is essentially that it’d be easier to identify what isn’t effectively a “kill everyone” button in the cockpit if used in the wrong way. It’s a fricken giant metal tube flying through the air!
Slightly related: a family friend who was a pilot once told us that the security at an UK airport once very thoroughly inspected him before his flight. Puzzled, he asked: what are you looking for? Because I have a literal axe in the cockpit - and I can also crash the plane. How could I possibly be carrying more dangerous stuff? The security people didn't like it.
Terrorist’s long game I guess … just become the damn pilot.
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#393Once on a flight headed west I happened to look out the window and just then another plane flew beneath the plane I was on headed north-ish and quickly off into the distance. I remember thinking two things: 1. It was far away from us so quickly it kind of shocked me, although it makes perfect sense of course. 2. I felt like i got a really good view of it. It didn’t look far away at all altitude-wise as it passed bene…
Generally, required separation is 5 (nautical) miles or 1000 feet in altitude. There are some exceptions like taking off or landing on parallel runways. ATC will ensure the separation, and on large airliners, the TCAS[1] system will alert pilots if something goes horribly wrong and aircraft get too close together.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
I took a look at this a few months ago, and when I left off, I was unsure exactly how they conducted the validation of the technique. In particular, there was a test on June 3 2021 where they attempted to reconstruct the path of a flight from Samoa to Australia[1]. Certain phrases in the report leave me wondering whether the test simply amounted to looking for anomalies in the WSPRnet data in close spatiotemoral prox…
I think a hypothetical WISPRnet advocate might respond by pointing out that the plane's flight isn't unknown per se, and that they could markedly narrow the search space through first applying other information about the flight, but you're probably still right anyway in that it wouldn't be enough narrowing to get useful results. That phrasing does seem to imply needing to know just about exactly where to look already…
I think the proponents of this method can assume a last known position (with time), but for the tests to be relevant, they need to show that, given this, the data provides significant support for one and only one subsequent track. I wonder why, if the people performing the tests understand this, they would present a report that raises doubts about whether they have done so.
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
The person who bought the chickens told me that battery chickens were not suitable because the bones were too soft. Farm chickens were needed. The farmer never knew what the chickens were for.
Damn, we throw chickens in engines that are healthier than the ones most people eat.
Maybe they can like...catch the exit material and fry it up.
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
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what I don't understand is: if the plane could make contact with the satellite, why aren't there automated systems in place to send location info through that channel? can someone explain?
From tfa > In the interest of knowing where every plane is at all times, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) began requiring that all airliners manufactured after the 1st of January 2021 include autonomous tracking devices that broadcast their location once per minute.
It's bat shit insane that we're 50 years in to the industry and ~20-25 years in to GPS and this is still only happening in 2021.
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
Investigations have some weird bits. I've always wondered if there's a certain title for the person who prepares the chickens for the 'chicken gun' in airplane testing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun
Bird Hit QA engineer
Bird Bash QA engineering.
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#398Yes, I think the pilot has to have deliberately done it. The turns after the transponder went off are too intentional, and nothing like the flight plan the plane was meant to be flying. I saw a simulation that looked fairly convincing, that showed if the plane was ditched in a controlled glide from where the last ping was received, assuming that's were it ran out of fuel, then the plane would have glided out of the a…
I hope for the passengers sake that he flew that plane straight into the ocean instead of gently laying it down. It would turn a basic instant death into a nightmare slow action drowning scenario where if you didn't die immediately taking many days to die from exposure and thirst.
They mention in the article that the passengers oxygen would already have run out - apparently they would have all been dead or unconscious.
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#399Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for the link and I need to spend some time to read the details. It was stated in the paper I read that tracking one of the proving flights failed but other flights had data which correlated to part of an aircraft's flight path. I agree with your analysis that some pre-knowledge of the track is apparent here and therefore more fully blinded independent experiments would be needed to add credibility. Given th…
Several hours ago, someone made two posts in this thread, pointing out the lack of statistical analysis (aside from an unsupported claim of statistical significance) in a similar test involving an airplane over the Baltic Sea. I'm not seeing those posts now, and I don't know what to make of that (did their author find a reasonable analysis?)
Perhaps that commenter observed that the author of the paper seems incredibly personally invested in the success of this method and tends to personally attack any detractors without regard to the soundness of the criticism. The author seems to also have a lot of fans who do the same. Publicly engaging with a person like that requires a certain tolerance for crankiness that not everyone possesses.
Re: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
#400> ... reaches up and flips the pressurization switch, cutting off bleed air to the cabin. The airplane rapidly begins to depressurize ... I cannot believe that a "kill everyone" switch actually exists, and if it really does this seems like a bug. Especially because not hitting the switch would also kill everyone.
When in the right (/ wrong) hands many of the buttons and controls on an airliners can become "kill everyone" switches.
This switch, just like all others, has very legitimate use cases.