03-11-2014, 01:56 PM
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#301
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nik-
A flight simulator in his house seems like the kind of thing that would be just absolutely par for the course for a pilot.
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Agreed. Just bringing odd facts to the table.
I know a couple hundred pilots, and not one have a sim in their house (That I know of)
Last edited by JonDuke; 03-11-2014 at 02:13 PM.
Reason: To throw in "that I know of"
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03-11-2014, 01:56 PM
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#302
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Fantasy Island
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Originally Posted by Bigtime
You take that back about the 777. She's awesome.
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Haha well you know what I mean. It's gotta be crappy compared to space travel. 
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03-11-2014, 01:59 PM
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#303
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JonDuke
The altitude thing...
Many people reported seeing the plane extremely low in that area: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/missing-mal...to-sea-1439730
If it were indeed that low, they passed quite a few airports where they could have potentially landed. (I don't knwo if each runway was capable of receiving a 777 though, and who knows if they were lit up at that time of night)
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That area is on the east side of the Island though, the military supposively tracked it at 30,000 ft on the west side.
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03-11-2014, 02:01 PM
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#304
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Haifa, Israel
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JonDuke
Agreed. Just bringing odd facts to the table.
I know a couple hundred pilots, and not one have a sim in their house.
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Not to nitpick on this, but do you really know 200+ people so close that you know what's in their houses? I guess, I don't have a life...
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03-11-2014, 02:11 PM
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#305
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First Line Centre
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Since the plane changed course and flew almost due west, the final destination possibilities are limited. India and Sri Lanka are the prime targets. Perhaps Parkistan and Iran are not out of the question.
Also, why flew an hour before changing course? Perhaps to be just outside of Malaysia territory that the KL airport would't be tracking it actively.
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03-11-2014, 02:12 PM
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#306
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pointman
Not to nitpick on this, but do you really know 200+ people so close that you know what's in their houses? I guess, I don't have a life...
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Nitpick away. I think it's very fair for you to do that. I should have said "that I know of" at the end of that to make my statement more reasonable.
I worked in aviation for 9 years. Have not been inside anywhere even close to 200 pilot houses, but if a pilot has a sim, they'll tell you about it. I've seen pictures of hundreds of pilots wives, families, cottage homes, vacations, private planes, etc etc...but never once have I seen or heard of a pilots homemade sim.
Not saying it's impossible. I've seen some online and know they exist. Just saying I've personally never met a pilot, and I know quite a few, who have a sim in their house.
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03-11-2014, 02:14 PM
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#307
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Fantasy Island
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I barely know a couple hundred people, let alone a couple hundred people all in the same profession. Lol
So what are the chances this whole mystery is really just a cluster of several governments and militaries who don't cooperate well, plus translation/communication issues amongst all their poor cooperation? How has it taken 4 days to figure out that the plane was actually a few hundred kms away from the last contact with Air traffic control? And last contact with civilian radar?
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03-11-2014, 02:24 PM
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#308
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JonDuke
Agreed. Just bringing odd facts to the table.
I know a couple hundred pilots, and not one have a sim in their house.
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Me too, far too broke to ever afford one.
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03-11-2014, 02:34 PM
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#310
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Keep in mind, his "home made simulator" could consist of nothing more than computer and joystick.
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03-11-2014, 02:39 PM
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#311
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
Keep in mind, his "home made simulator" could consist of nothing more than computer and joystick.
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Yeah, from the article it sounded like a 3 monitor setup and such, nothing like those actual enclosed flight sims.
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03-11-2014, 02:44 PM
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#312
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Calgary
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Not an enclosed sim, but more than a monitor and joystick
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03-11-2014, 02:48 PM
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#313
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Nov 2011
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Damn....I want that setup....
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03-11-2014, 02:52 PM
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#314
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First Line Centre
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I know at least 200 pilots, and it's pretty rare that you find one that spends hours on any form of simulator at home after flying all day.
Lots of guys have Flight Sim on their computers, but even then the online community is pretty small.
I would hazard a guess that there are more pilots with personal airplanes than simulators.
Oh ya, and this story is really weird. I can see a plane being hard to see, but to disapear without a beacon or something is really unusual.
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03-11-2014, 02:55 PM
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#315
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Lifetime Suspension
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How do you guys know so many pilots?
Anyways, the last few pages have given some hope that they might be found alive somewhere.
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03-11-2014, 02:55 PM
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#316
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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I don't understand the whole cell phone issue. A friend of mine dropped his into a lake and when I called it, it still rang on my end.
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03-11-2014, 02:56 PM
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#317
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I don't know if I know 200 of anything, besides humans.
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Originally Posted by MisterJoji
Johnny eats garbage and isn’t 100% committed.
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03-11-2014, 03:03 PM
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#318
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by puckluck2
How do you guys know so many pilots?
Anyways, the last few pages have given some hope that they might be found alive somewhere.
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I've worked in Moose Jaw at 15 wing for 23 years. We graduate 100's of pilots a year and interact with them on a daily basis. I have over 400 hrs as a pax in tutors as well, I've probably flown with at least 100 different pilots.
Humble brag.
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03-11-2014, 03:32 PM
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#319
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Uranus
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Quote:
Originally Posted by T@T
So bizarre, The military waits 4 days to release this info and allows countless search groups to look in the wrong area on the other side of the country.
Something really smells here.
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I despise the whole notion of it out there but I'm starting to get the feeling that perhaps this plane was so off course it may have been shot down and there's a bit of a cover up going on. Nothing else really makes sense as to why this wouldn't yet be known.
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03-11-2014, 04:02 PM
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#320
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Likes Cartoons
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JonDuke
The altitude thing...
Many people reported seeing the plane extremely low in that area: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/missing-mal...to-sea-1439730
If it were indeed that low, they passed quite a few airports where they could have potentially landed. (I don't knwo if each runway was capable of receiving a 777 though, and who knows if they were lit up at that time of night)
Large map or airports in the area:
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I'm not sure about Langkawi, as that is a resort island that normally caters to smaller planes. But I think Penang international airport definitely can land a 777.
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