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Narrogin Gliding Club is hosting a cross country event for women - 2015-11-13 to 2015-11-16. See here for details.

I worked for Australian Archives (Now National Archives Australia) as a consultant on IT developments for some years. During that time, I was involved peripherally with a project sponsored by a major resources Company I am probably not at liberty to name, to transcribe some 16" wide, 14-channel analogue recording tape of seismic tests in Bass Strait to digital format. That included rebuilding the recording/playback apparatus to functional; the quid pro quo for that was that the Company involved had unique access to the records.Suffice it to say that it was highly economically advantageous for the Company to access the recordings than to send out seismic testing ships.

 

We spend hundreds of millions of $$ on astronomic research, that has absolutely NO practical economic value. What do we gain from knowing that 'Engstrom 3XVI' had a solar eruption 25,000 million years ago? Our knowledge of 3/5ths of our planet's surface is abysmal.

 

ANY activity that increases our knowledge of our seas has to be useful, even if we can't think of the ways it might be useful immediately. It is sad that this activity has had to have a tragedy to get it to happen, but ANY cost we might bear for that activity has to be more potentially useful than sending a satellite up Uranus..

I worked for Australian Archives (Now National Archives Australia) as a consultant on IT developments for some years. During that time, I was involved peripherally with a project sponsored by a major resources Company I am probably not at liberty to name, to transcribe some 16" wide, 14-channel analogue recording tape of seismic tests in Bass Strait to digital format. That included rebuilding the recording/playback apparatus to functional; the quid pro quo for that was that the Company involved had unique access to the records.Suffice it to say that it was highly economically advantageous for the Company to access the recordings than to send out seismic testing ships.

 

We spend hundreds of millions of $$ on astronomic research, that has absolutely NO practical economic value. What do we gain from knowing that 'Engstrom 3XVI' had a solar eruption 25,000 million years ago? Our knowledge of 3/5ths of our planet's surface is abysmal.

 

ANY activity that increases our knowledge of our seas has to be useful, even if we can't think of the ways it might be useful immediately. It is sad that this activity has had to have a tragedy to get it to happen, but ANY cost we might bear for that activity has to be more potentially useful than sending a satellite up Uranus..

How long is the Government going to waste taxpayers money looking for this jet ? They're all dead, lets move on.

How long is the Government going to waste taxpayers money looking for this jet ? They're all dead, lets move on.

When omnidirectional satellite pings are the only data directing a multimillion dollar search and rescue, and it has been shown that these pings can be plotted logically along the SW track or the NW track around the circle then unless someone has an agenda that is influencing the search like the USA or China or Russia then it would make a lot of sense to explore both possibilities, surely. Exploring the NW track, if they haven't already starved to death while we fiddled in the southern Indian Ocean, then the passengers may well still be alive.

What is the likelihood of a MA towelette in its wrapper getting into the ocean? Not high, I would say, unless the plane came apart. You can't throw things out a window.

I find it difficult to believe that they are spending mega millions on the search but haven't informed Rangers or other Locals/Police to check out the "deserted beaches" occasionally.A Malaysian Airlines towelette was found a few days ago on a beach 250kms North of Perth but they don't believe it is related.

 

http://cn.bing.com/search?q=Malaysian+Airlines+towelette+found&go=Submit&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=malaysian+airlines+towelette+w+found&sc=0-38&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=af352d06380f4e96ac1638eb3a58ffd7

I find it impossible to believe that an aircraft coming in with an airspeed of around 150kts/277 klm phr, could land on the ocean without breaking up, then sink to the bottom,intact. If it broke up in the air, there would have been any number of items which would have floated and should have been found, so,where is the wreckage?Ok! so they may be looking in the wrong part of the ocean, but is it in the ocean? As time goes on, it appears not.

 

Frank.

A lengthy article about this in The Daily Beast. NB: not endorsing or recommending this article or the site (it frequently has crappy and kooky articles) - but if you are interested in following opinions about this event it's worth the read.

"18:19 - the last exchange between the pilots and air traffic control -- three minutes later the automatic position reporting system, the transponder, stops working [over the South China Sea].

18:22 - The last primary radar return providing a verifiable “fix” of the 777’s direction is made -- the airplane is flying northwest above the Straits of Malacca.

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That's some flying. The direct path distance distance between the two points is approximately 850Km. So the direct path (i.e. minimum) speed between 18:19 and 18:22 would be 17,000Km/H. So, plainly, this article has not been proof read.

Having said that, on the balance of probabilities, but having no real data, I support the equipment failure hypothesis.

what a great project, we need more of this sort of thing to bring the club ships into this century.Any chance you can take a video in flight so we can see it in use?

there is a similar unit but panel mount that I've been looking at. http://www.openvario.org/doku.php?id=start

 

see your location is Narrogin, will call in one day for a soaring fix.

The Open Vario project is a good idea. The display used is probably better than the Kobo display. It uses a color display in reflective mode - not back lit - so it doesn't try to compete with the sun. However, as I understand it, this display is no longer manufactured so people are looking for a replacement. I thought about building a cut down Open Vario as a portable but this display is just a little too big for comfort.

Sure, come on down some time. It would make a nice flight. We do have accommodation if you want to make a weekend of it. And there is the flying club right next door.

I have made a portable Kobo - XCSoar - Flarm instrument for use in club gliders.

Controllers rely on transponders these days, but in case I wander into the wrong territory, can their radar see every type of small aircraft? Wood and composite presumably return less radar. I lined the inside of my plywood fuselage with alfoil in the hope I'd be seen by a low-flying jet jockey- and then realised that it would interfere with my internal dipole antenna, so ripped it out again.Perhaps the ATC people on the forum can advise.

It was the middle of the night. There is no way anyone could tell a ball of flame from a distance was a plane.

Much higher load than full power. In a radial every second cylinder is on compression. The power pulses keep the whole rotating mass of conrods loaded inwards. With power off there is none of this to balance the massive centrifugal forces. It doesn't happen with in line engines. A radial on cruise is lightly loaded. Quite a few operators are not aware of this Dafydd and find out the hard and expensive, wayWith my limited knowledge of gliders I cannot see how you would be able to land one without spoilers, unless you had a salt lake or such. Nev

A couple of articles which lay out the benefits of a glider endorsement for power pilots.

What Gliders Teach Us

Barry Schiff on Gliders

That's correct and according to 400,000 years of ice drilling history, we are supposed to be getting hotter. Apparently all those Toyota's we were driving around in 15,000 years ago set it off as it did 130,000 years and 240,000 years and 350,000 years ago ...Look up Vostok deep ice drilling program, there's a couple of others as well, one is at 680,000 years I think. Simply put they drill for cores and measure the atmospheric gases trapped in the ice from that time, notice the cycles ...

 

...could it be warm because MH370 had a few tons of plutonium in its cargo, and it's reacting and warming the ocean?

That is very nice but the thread drift is about climate change and the carbon tax.

I have no idea what you are talking about.Which makes 2 of us..

Actually, I was not expecting you to understand. You have met my expectations.

Oh yeah, just what struggling American manufacturing needs, another burden.The progression is well underway towards cleaner, more responsible manufacturing worldwide, we are what we are now and the changes should be generational* rather than forced (other than the ones that obviously need forcing of course).

 

*Teach our Children to do better than us.

The truth is that we need to re-engineer our lives and that we are on the brink of a new age of prosperity. It makes me wish that I was a young engineer again - so many opportunities. All this is good news for struggling US manufacturers - and Australian ones if we are smart enough.

What would their carbon emission be? Second largest on the planet? What rip-roaring success! And their economy another joke clearly an example we must follow.

Flying the predicted arc will reveal if they got it right.If it is right then their data logs should match what they have assumed to be the flight path.If it goes off course then they will need to make adjustments.Trial and Error Method is the only way they can prove themselves right or wrong.Facthunter here said from the very first days they need to know the speed (more importantly ground speed) at which the aircraft was travelling at and its altitude.A slow flying aircraft would not have gone so far maybe halfway at most.

As I say the physics and engineering is well understood. The trails you refer to have been done - in the 18th and 19th centuries.

. Really? were you going to stop eating beef? driving your car? flying your plane? using electricity?

All the carbon tax was going to do is stifle the economy and create poverty.

 

What is our estimated carbon emission, 1% of the world emissions? And what about the scientists who say man made carbon is minuscule compared to other natural events such as volcanoes?

I understand they still believe it's in the southern Indian Ocean (the southern arc), just that the initial signals they picked up in the water were not from the black box. It was a confused message in the media, but then that would be normal... the intent is get get attention, sell some stuff.