Missing Flight MH370 777-200

[DER E30]

Because honestly, driving/racing and flying an airliner are not comparable. A competitive sort of environment is much more fun to simulate. Flight sim with a 777 would be like playing a driving game where the goal is to drive a city transit bus in straight lines.


Pretty much every airline pilot I know still loves airplanes, but they want nothing to do with simulating their job when they're not at work.

Flight sims are Uber boring, and I'm no pilot

[mulletman]

bus simulator? heeeere ya go:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/253770/

Haha. Now compare this to Forza or Gran Tourismo.


:yawn:

[Thizzelle]

I was thinking about the Chinese employees from the Texas company on the flight, so I went and looked into that...

Freescale Semiconductor.

A patent filed by Freescale Semiconductor was filed in the names of 5 individuals, four of them were on the flight, the other was Freescale Semiconductor itself.

Anybody here well versed in patent law and what happens to portions not willed when a patent holder dies?

nothing. I have 2 patents and if I die nothing happens. You only make money if you sell it to someone who wants to buy it. It just prevents people from copying you for so many years so you can get a head start on the market.

[BraveUlysses]

bus simulator? heeeere ya go:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/253770/

[mulletman]

Drivers/racers do it, why not pilots? I love driving/racing, but doing it for real gets expensive, and it's better (read: cheaper, safer) to push the limits of physics and/or realism in the simulator.

Because honestly, driving/racing and flying an airliner are not comparable. A competitive sort of environment is much more fun to simulate. Flight sim with a 777 would be like playing a driving game where the goal is to drive a city transit bus in straight lines.


Pretty much every airline pilot I know still loves airplanes, but they want nothing to do with simulating their job when they're not at work.

[z31maniac]

So now the owner/s of Freescale Semiconductor devised the most elaborate scheme to hijack an international airliner on the other side of the world, for a patent?

Wouldn't have been easier to have them buried somewhere in the middle of Nevada?

[Farbin Kaiber]

I was thinking about the Chinese employees from the Texas company on the flight, so I went and looked into that...

Freescale Semiconductor.

A patent filed by Freescale Semiconductor was filed in the names of 5 individuals, four of them were on the flight, the other was Freescale Semiconductor itself.

Anybody here well versed in patent law and what happens to portions not willed when a patent holder dies?

[Farbin Kaiber]

Brave, Problem is they are not ripe yet, Mangosteens are not in season yet, so either they were moving lots of canned mangosteens, or it could be a cover for other cargo.


Fishy.


Oh and...


Too soon?

[agent]

My opinion of an airline pilot playing flight sim at home? Nerd alert!

Drivers/racers do it, why not pilots? I love driving/racing, but doing it for real gets expensive, and it's better (read: cheaper, safer) to push the limits of physics and/or realism in the simulator.

[BraveUlysses]

you must be scraping the barrel for source material lol

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news-13/

apparently almost all of the world's mangosteens are from thailand, so there goes that idea, but its not like they are particularly smelly fruit like goddamned durian is

[DER E30]

^How much stuff do you buy from Wal-Mart?


And, a found WTF?!?!? Theory, just for a laugh....

What? Not much, I dislike wally world.

[Farbin Kaiber]

^How much stuff do you buy from Wal-Mart?


And, a found WTF?!?!? Theory, just for a laugh....

Someone suggested the possibility of the crew/passengers being exposed to toxic fumes. At some point we were told that a large shipment of mangosteens was on board. Is it possible that the fruit was over ripe/rotting and fermented? Could fumes from fermenting fruit have gotten into the cabin air supply and slowly intoxicated the crew, causing stranger and stranger actions?

[DER E30]

Why would China's military radar not pick up a plane that size? Their radar defenses must REALLY suck if they didn't catch a 777 inbound...

[Farbin Kaiber]

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/china-launches-own-search-missing-malaysia-airlines-jet-n55291

Now, this is telling. Why would China do this if their, and all the other neighboring countries radar systems actually worked. We know India has said they were not running their systems in the Indian Ocean because it was "Too expensive."

I am still on my same thought process, they got through very spotty radar coverage, ended up where I said on a desolate highway, PAX were offloaded and trucked to Xinjiang by the Uyghur's. The Chinese can't accept their own 9/11, so they have covered and kept their mouths shut.

[mulletman]

^Yes, I'm not arguing the access to top level stuff, but what if you don't want to have logs of the flights you flew in the company sim?

Having been in the sim, I can tell you that all kinds of ridiculous scenarios are frequently attempted. There's nothing he could really do in the sim that would raise any eyebrows.