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2014-06-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-

MH370 pilot plotted route to southern Indian Ocean on home simulator.

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-23 01:20|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#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|| 2014-06-23 07:28|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-23 07:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-23 08:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-23 08:43|| Front Page Top

#5 In the Cessna of course, not a 747.

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-23 08:43|| 2014-06-23 08:43|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-23 09:29|| Front Page Top

#7 AFB Luke Aux fields, Ship?

Echeverria?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-06-23 13:17|| 2014-06-23 13:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-23 14:08|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-23 14:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Don't forget Halliburton.....

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-06-23 14:20|| 2014-06-23 14:20|| Front Page Top

#11 I did a loop around the Golden Gate Bridge in a Sopwith Camel.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-06-23 15:41|| 2014-06-23 15:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-23 16:08|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-23 17:00|| Front Page Top

#14 I know that Dam, it's named after a vacuum cleaner.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-06-23 20:07|| 2014-06-23 20:07|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-23 20:40|| Front Page Top

#16 Dyson Dam?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-06-23 22:10|| 2014-06-23 22:10|| Front Page Top

#17 Yeah, #16 Ret - that's it. ;-p

Posted by Barbara 2014-06-23 22:24|| 2014-06-23 22:24|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-23 22:55|| Front Page Top

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