Malaysia Airlines 777 missing

ElihuSmails said:
Agree with those and a few others. "Tally" is actually still in the military brevity vernacular, and can be pretty useful talking from aircraft to aircraft. "No Joy" is a pretty standard term when you have negative comms on a switched freq - though something tells me you've heard that term in another context. I'd actually be interested to hear it!

On another note: I find it odd that a 777 would go down in a very busy shipping lane like the Straits of Malacca and not be seen as it happened, much less no sign of debris at this point in the game. There's only 60,000 ships per year that transit that strait. I'm not buying it!
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True to the tally stuff but we're doing civilian flying here and it's annoying to me to hear guys in Bonanzas(insert any aircraft type) trying to act like fighter pilots. I try to stick with the P/C glossary on almost everything and keep it professional as much as possible.
 
This is funny that during the lull in this tragedy, that everyone takes the time to debate ATC terminology, hopefully soon we'll be back to business as usual. Like we're just twiddling our thumbs waiting for the details to come out...
 
fholbert said:
It's funny that the government of China would release these pictures, nothing more than a couple of blobs AND I would think the satellite picture would be a much clearer than what China released. When I look at Google Earth of my house I can see my dog sleeping in the back yard.
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Different satellites are capable of different resolutions. Obviously, the higher the resolution the more bandwidth is required to get teh image back to earth and the more storage space is required to hang on to it. Unless something is happening in the middle of the ocean (think: military buildup etc) most high resolution cameras are pointed over land most of the time. It is possible (in fact, likely) that China has a higher resolution imaging satellite, but it probably is pointed somewhere else right now that is more strategically important to them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery#Resolution_and_data

Also, as was said, much of what we see in Google Earth and Bing Maps is the result of aircraft imagery as opposed to satellite imagery.
 
WSJ is now reporting that engine data (how they know this I don't know) says that the plane flew 4-5 more hours AFTER radar contact was lost. Is there a chance this plane is sitting in Iran?
 
RobertB said:
WSJ is now reporting that engine data (how they know this I don't know) says that the plane flew 4-5 more hours AFTER radar contact was lost. Is there a chance this plane is sitting in Iran?
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Why? Remember the thread where Boeing and other companies can now do business with Iran? They want a 777, they can just buy one.
 
MikeD said:
Why? Remember the thread where Boeing and other companies can now do business with Iran? They want a 777, they can just buy one.
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It's cheaper if you steal one though. Plus, (conspiracy theory hats on) two Iranian nationals boarded the flight with stolen passports...
 
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