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| HAve you tried the thingy where you can switch to cockpit view from the plane? Not the actual view, of course, but a FS version, but amazing noetheless. Until due to delays in positional and course changes, and the processing power of your CPU, the view starts madly swinging from side to side and you become certain the plane's goin down
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| Quote ="broadybull87"Thats not good.
just found this website hard to comprehend the number of flights in the world [urlhttp://www.flightradar24.com/48.84,-99.7/4[/url I think its astounding'"
Great site ain't it. Flight tracking is a surprisingly popular pastime. I know a few people who follow flights online and listen in to airport/aircraft comms.
Interesting and understandable that everyone is avoiding eastern Ukraine like the plague. Most Europe - Far East/Australasia routings have been rerouted to the south.
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Very impressed with that tracking site. The queues in the gulf/Syria/Iran region earlier today were ridiculous, they must have been stacking them 20 high.
I take it those trackers are all theoretical? And therefore cannot be used to locate missing planes? Another one today where it's been missing for hours on end without anyone finding it. Surely in this day and age it's possible to have some kind of location system?
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This tracking site is real time with many dedicated followers installing receivers of ads-b m-lat needs at least 4 recievers to track a non ads-b equipped aircraft ( mainly older aircraft) then there's FAA which is in North America not real time but delayed by 5 minutes. The problem with this mornings aircrash was that there's no recievers in the area to supply coverage and as its a md83 these don't have ads-b transponders so would need to be in the category of m-lat.
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| Quote ="cod'ead"If it "failed to land", how come it's not still flying?'"
Perhaps you should rename yourself "cock'ead. You take great pride in trying to belittle people if they don't state what they are saying to the the letter, this time your little bit of fun pokeing has stooped below even your low standards...not even funny that comment, but i'm sure the cuddle crew will be here to defend your discusting comment shortly. |
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| Quote ="Ferocious Aardvark"HAve you tried the thingy where you can switch to cockpit view from the plane? Not the actual view, of course, but a FS version, but amazing noetheless. Until due to delays in positional and course changes, and the processing power of your CPU, the view starts madly swinging from side to side and you become certain the plane's goin down
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The only problem with the tracker is that when the flight arrives at its destination you see it losing altitude and lining up for, say, Majorca, and then at 500 feet, without fail, the little graphic airplane will turn around and go somewhere else for a few seconds, or just stop, and you're left thinking "Don't do this to me, I've been watching you for two frikkin hours" - or you'll go make a coffee and come back and someone's refreshed your screen and you've lost your flight, 30 seconds later and panic sets in when you can't find it again "It was here somewhere, when do I call the police!" |
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| Quote ="JerryChicken"The only problem with the tracker is that when the flight arrives at its destination you see it losing altitude and lining up for, say, Majorca, and then at 500 feet, without fail, the little graphic airplane will turn around and go somewhere else for a few seconds, or just stop, and you're left thinking "Don't do this to me, I've been watching you for two frikkin hours" - or you'll go make a coffee and come back and someone's refreshed your screen and you've lost your flight, 30 seconds later and panic sets in when you can't find it again "It was here somewhere, when do I call the police!"'"
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| Quote ="GraftonRed"Perhaps you should rename yourself "cock'ead. You take great pride in trying to belittle people if they don't state what they are saying to the the letter, this time your little bit of fun pokeing has stooped below even your low standards...not even funny that comment, but i'm sure the cuddle crew will be here to defend your discusting comment shortly.'"
Hello [is[/ihit-for-brains!
If a "failure to land" is now a euphemism for a crash, what is crash a euphemism for?
Or are you the type who uses the term "he has passed" instead of "he's dead"?
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| Quote ="broadybull87"Thats not good.
just found this website hard to comprehend the number of flights in the world [urlhttp://www.flightradar24.com/48.84,-99.7/4[/url I think its astounding'"
Take a look at the [url=https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/AIS site for shipping.[/url
And remember each of them is sailing on exactly the same plane
[url=http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/zoom:8/mmsi:247359600Costa Concordia being towed to Genoa for scrap[/url |
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| Quote ="cod'ead"Take a look at the [url=https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/AIS site for shipping.[/url
And remember each of them is sailing on exactly the same plane
[url=http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/zoom:8/mmsi:247359600Costa Concordia being towed to Genoa for scrap[/url'"
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| Quote ="cod'ead"Take a look at the [url=https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/AIS site for shipping.[/url'"
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| Quote ="Ferocious Aardvark"Ships On A Plane?
Samuel L. Jackson should make a film about that.'"
If I meant the short version of aeroplane, I would've written 'plane |
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Quote ="Saddened!"And another one goes. A domestic Transasia flight in Taiwan has crashed after failing to land killing 'more than 40' of the 54 on board.'"
Quote ="cod'ead"If it "failed to land", how come it's not still flying?'"
Because it "crashed" after failing to land. 
www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j ... hoon-matmo
"Forty-eight people are dead and 10 injured after their plane crashed while trying to land at a Taiwanese airport on Wednesday evening, hours after typhoon Matmo battered the region."
Quote ="cod'ead"Hello -for-brains!!
If a "failure to land" is now a euphemism for a crash, what is crash a euphemism for?'"
Where is "failure to land" being used as a euphemism for crash?
If Saddened had just put "And another one goes. A domestic Transasia flight in Taiwan has failed to land killing 'more than 40' of the 54 on board." then it could have been a euphemism, but he didn't.
If you really can't grasp what Saddened said and need it explaining word for word so that you can, then it is you that has "-for-brains!" not me, as i know, like everyone else on here, what he said.
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If you're that sensitive, stay off social media. There's a good lad'"
Not sensitive, i just find it abhorrent you have to use the deaths of 40+ people to score points against other posters on here...
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Quote ="cod'ead"If it "failed to land", how come it's not still flying?'"
Because it "crashed" after failing to land.
www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j ... hoon-matmo
"Forty-eight people are dead and 10 injured after their plane crashed while trying to land at a Taiwanese airport on Wednesday evening, hours after typhoon Matmo battered the region."
Quote ="cod'ead"Hello -for-brains!!
If a "failure to land" is now a euphemism for a crash, what is crash a euphemism for?'"
Where is "failure to land" being used as a euphemism for crash?
If Saddened had just put "And another one goes. A domestic Transasia flight in Taiwan has failed to land killing 'more than 40' of the 54 on board." then it could have been a euphemism, but he didn't.
If you really can't grasp what Saddened said and need it explaining word for word so that you can, then it is you that has "-for-brains!" not me, as i know, like everyone else on here, what he said.
Quote ="cod'ead"
If you're that sensitive, stay off social media. There's a good lad'"
Not sensitive, i just find it abhorrent you have to use the deaths of 40+ people to score points against other posters on here...
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Quote ="GraftonRed"Because it "crashed" after failing to land.
www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j ... hoon-matmo
"Forty-eight people are dead and 10 injured after their plane crashed while trying to land at a Taiwanese airport on Wednesday evening, hours after typhoon Matmo battered the region."
Where is "failure to land" being used as a euphemism for crash?
If Saddened had just put "And another one goes. A domestic Transasia flight in Taiwan has failed to land killing 'more than 40' of the 54 on board." then it could have been a euphemism, but he didn't.
If you really can't grasp what Saddened said and need it explaining word for word so that you can, then it is you that has "-for-brains!" not me, as i know, like everyone else on here, what he said.
Not sensitive, i just find it abhorrent you have to use the deaths of 40+ people to score points against other posters on here...
...and i'm sure if anyone else had put "And remember each of them is sailing on exactly the same plane" you'd have been right on their case with a little putdown, seems you can give but not take.'"
The flight crashed after failing to land "safely".
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www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j ... hoon-matmo
"Forty-eight people are dead and 10 injured after their plane crashed while trying to land at a Taiwanese airport on Wednesday evening, hours after typhoon Matmo battered the region."
Where is "failure to land" being used as a euphemism for crash?
If Saddened had just put "And another one goes. A domestic Transasia flight in Taiwan has failed to land killing 'more than 40' of the 54 on board." then it could have been a euphemism, but he didn't.
If you really can't grasp what Saddened said and need it explaining word for word so that you can, then it is you that has "-for-brains!" not me, as i know, like everyone else on here, what he said.
Not sensitive, i just find it abhorrent you have to use the deaths of 40+ people to score points against other posters on here...
...and i'm sure if anyone else had put "And remember each of them is sailing on exactly the same plane" you'd have been right on their case with a little putdown, seems you can give but not take.'"
The flight crashed after failing to land "safely".
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| Quote ="cod'ead"The flight crashed after failing to land "safely".
It landed sure enough'"
No, it crashed. Landing is something else entirely. Go and look up what a landing is. Hint: it's what most of us are used to when we fly.
Quote ="Oxford English Dictionary"Bring (an aircraft or spacecraft) to the ground or the surface of water in a controlled way'"
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Anyone see the fighter plane escorting the passenger plane over Stockport just? Seemed to be really harassing it, circling it both over and under and in front of the cockpit. Don't know what's going on but must have made it quite choppy and scary for those on the passenger plane.
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| Quote ="Saddened!"Anyone see the fighter plane escorting the passenger plane over Stockport just? Seemed to be really harassing it, circling it both over and under and in front of the cockpit. Don't know what's going on but must have made it quite choppy and scary for those on the passenger plane.'"
Apparently due to information received by the pilot re a suspected device on board.
Doubt it will have made any difference to the passengers, apart from wondering what the hell was going on. The fighter pilot will know where to position himself to avoid his wash affecting other aircraft.
I flew out of JFK to Manchester on BA in 2003. Looked out the window somewhere over the Atlantic and saw the lights of a fighter a few hundred feet below us, close enough I could see the cockpit display and the pilot's head moving. I asked one of the crew if there was any reason we might be being escorted but they didn't believe me until they looked for themselves.
As it was, after a short time it slowly flew ahead and disappeared. Most likely they were simply heading over to Iraq ready for Dubya's brainfart war which began later that month, but it certainly got the mind going. |
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| Quote ="Cronus"Apparently due to information received by the pilot re a suspected device on board.'"
One man now arrested for a hoax bomb threat. Yikes, I'd have been evacuating myself if that had happened on a flight I was on.
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| Quote ="Cronus"Most likely they were simply heading over to Iraq ready for Dubya's brainfart war which began later that month,'"
Most likely they were simply on exercises, or there was a plane that wasn't responding to ATC.
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Reckon he's earned himself at least 3 years at Brenda's pleasure.
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| Quote ="Lord God Jose Mourinho"Most likely they were simply on exercises, or there was a plane that wasn't responding to ATC.
Most fighter jets have a range of around 1,000 miles, which is a slight problem for crossing the Atlantic.[/
In flight re fuelling is rather handy
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