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| MH370 pilot plotted route to southern Indian Ocean on home simulator. |
| 2014-06-23 |
| The availability of airfields in that region tends to narrow the possibilities. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #18 FlightGear is fun if you have the hardware to run it (basically a graphics card that can do accelerated OpenGL). Google it yourself, you lazies. As for Harpoon, man, I miss that game! It was a great intro to Rooski mil stuff. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-06-23 22:55 |
| #17 Yeah, #16 Ret - that's it. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-06-23 22:24 |
| #16 Dyson Dam? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2014-06-23 22:10 |
| #15 Pssst, for a good time, dc3airways.com. They've got propheads over there with 1000's of hours in DC3s. Fly the Hump! Take the Scottish distillery tour! Great virtual airline. Use the MAAM DC3. |
| Posted by: KBK 2014-06-23 20:40 |
| #14 I know that Dam, it's named after a vacuum cleaner. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-06-23 20:07 |
| #13 Damn... Now I'm going to have to reinstall Flight Simulator X... I wonder if you can do that in X-Plane... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-06-23 17:00 |
| #12 Deacon, there's this Dam a big mother right outside Vegas, it's all famous and such, in gorgeous 3D (make sure you have a get video card), come up canyon 100 ft. above the Colorodo and climb like a cat on Meth at the last minute, then repeat, I've gotten wheels touching the wall while climbing, it's kinda like a skate park for the terminally insane pilot. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-23 16:08 |
| #11 I did a loop around the Golden Gate Bridge in a Sopwith Camel. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-06-23 15:41 |
| #10 Don't forget Halliburton..... |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-06-23 14:20 |
| #9 When a new version of Flight Simulator or a new Harpoon scenario pack arrived I tended to go into what DaveD used to call VIP, Vacation In Place. I can't focus like that anymore. I blame BusHitler and the Time Lords. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-23 14:12 |
| #8 Never found them Mullah, Flight Sim 1-3 used to come with an auxiliary dog-fighter game, which supposed used the same co-ordinate system as the regular flight sim, the fighting area was surrounded by mountains on all sides and i could never get the SPAD over them. But my understanding is that they do (did) exist in early versions of flight sim. And yeah, Flight Sim 3 in EGA blew up my head, it got better graphics over time and more planes, but for sheer HOLY COW look at this! It never got better. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-23 14:08 |
| #7 AFB Luke Aux fields, Ship? Echeverria? |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-06-23 13:17 |
| #6 I've been wondering why no word on the pilots wife and children...they left the residence the day before the flight and never returned home. |
| Posted by: Mugsy Glink 2014-06-23 09:29 |
| #5 In the Cessna of course, not a 747. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-23 08:43 |
| #4 Took off from Soldier Field, flew towards Arizona looking for 2 World War I Fighter fields in close proximity. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-23 08:43 |
| #3 First thing you do with a flight sim is try to land on the wrong runway. I got a 747 "landed"* at London City on an old sim. *If you can walk away from it, it's a landing. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-06-23 08:04 |
| #2 The southern Indian Ocean, between Indonesia and Australia, is broken up only by the Australian territories of Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. These remote islands, with a population of fewer than 1,000 people, have a small airport. Further south, the only habitation is a handful of research stations and a group of volcanic outcrops between Africa, Australia and Antarctica. More information about the area here, but the above is the most relevant. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-06-23 07:55 |
| #1 Sourcesclose to the investigation confirmed to The Telegraph on Sunday that a deleted flight path had been recovered from Capt Zaharie's simulator which had been used to practice landing an aircraft on a small runway on an unnamed island in the far southern Indian Ocean. I believe the simulator was sent to the FBI's forensics lab in Quantico. The article provided no source for the reporting, and as far as I know the FBI has not publicized any findings. Obviously however, any public discourse regarding the Bureau's well acknowledged 'system data recovery' would be particularly ill-advised in light of the IRS scandal. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-23 07:28 |