SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Don't give Shrub any ideas.
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Don't give Shrub any ideas.
higney85
Property of Scheduling
I would not worry at all about the position issue. It's the following.
Us to MOC: We have a spoileron fault status msg
MOC reply: Don't worry about it. When you get on the ground cycle 2P8/3N8/1S3 and let us know if that works. (These are not the actual breakers fwiw).
Someone in the general public: OMG I need to call the news- these people are flying around with safety in question and don't care!
Us to MOC: We have a spoileron fault status msg
MOC reply: Don't worry about it. When you get on the ground cycle 2P8/3N8/1S3 and let us know if that works. (These are not the actual breakers fwiw).
Someone in the general public: OMG I need to call the news- these people are flying around with safety in question and don't care!
ComplexHiAv8r
Well-Known Member
Any good lawyer will have papers filed before the flight even lands! :banghead::banghead:
SpiceWeasel
Tre Kronor
I'm pretty sure that he has a job that helps keep us all (U.S. citizens at least) free. US Gov is my guess, though I can't be too sure which branch.
You are probably right about his employer, and I'm sure they aren't that worried about the position of their charter aircraft.
higney85
Property of Scheduling
The military can encrypt. The CRJ CCCANNN ONNLLYY DOOO ITT THIIISSS WAY. CRJ drivers know what I am talking about! Things happen during a flight that pertain directly to the safe operation of the flight- hence the reason for flight following from a dispatcher. Problem is the last thing I want to deal with is media attention and even more paperwork second guessing the crew's actions for safely operating from point A-B because some private pilot was intercepting our ACARS messages and called it in to a news station saying "Hey I am a pilot and this is news". Its a far cry from something that would happen often but is not to much of a stretch in our world. Just my concern.
SpiraMirabilis
Possible Subversive
Tough beans. We live in America not Communist China! 
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
If I've got a problem that is a) serious enough to ACARS to dispatch and b) serious enough that somebody is going to pull it off VHF and then call a news station, that is going to be the least of my worries until I am on the ground with the brake set and the people safely off the plane.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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:yup:
Nick
Well-Known Member
That's weird. I'm as geeky as the next guy but I doubt if I'd find myself excitedly looking over position reports on ACARS.
Haven't you guys discovered porn yet?
On my ACARS, the response would come out as:
THEY.NEED.2
Chief Captain
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Chief Captain
Well-Known Member
Thanks Madmax. I've never been quoted before!
fo4ever
Well-Known Member
That's weird. I'm as geeky as the next guy but I doubt if I'd find myself excitedly looking over position reports on ACARS.
Haven't you guys discovered porn yet?
Thanks Doug! You just wasted a cold beverage.
germb747
Well-Known Member
Holy crap...that's kinda disturbing the info you can dig up on there. Especially from my company!!!
Good thing nobody can pick up ACARS transmissions off the Kelly birds, at least not yet anyway.
mtsu_av8er
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Cptnchia
Dissatisfied Customer
Why don't you try DHL? They are the only carrier I know of that had a heavy hit by a SAM which took out an engine while climbing out of Bahgdad. Isn't the internet great? Thanks Al Gore!
germb747
Well-Known Member
Nope, they're not the only one. Keep reading...
Cptnchia
Dissatisfied Customer
If you are going down the TWA 800 road, stop right there. However, from the following list of incidents, I can only see one that would be doing work that would be construed as involving National Security as was stated in the original post.
(From Wikipedia)
Notable uses against civilian aircraft
- 1993 Transair Georgian Airline shootdowns involved two separate aircraft shot down a day apart in Sukhumi, Abkhazia, Georgia, killing 108 people.[14]
- 2002 Mombasa airliner attack - On November 28, 2002, two shoulder-launched Strela 2 (SA-7) surface-to-air missiles were fired at another chartered Boeing 757 airliner as it took off from Moi International Airport. The missiles missed the aircraft, carrying 271 vacationers from Mombasa back to Israel, and it continued safely to Tel Aviv.
- 2003 Baghdad DHL shootdown incident - On 22 November 2003, an Airbus A300B4-203F cargo plane, operating on behalf of DHL was hit by an SA-7 missile, which resulted in the loss of its hydraulic systems. The crew later landed the crippled aircraft safely by using only differential engine thrust by adjusting the individual throttle controls of each engine.
- 2007 Mogadishu TransAVIAexport Airlines Il-76 crash - On March 23, 2007, a TransAVIAexport Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 airplane crashed in outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, during the 2007 Battle of Mogadishu. Witnesses claim that a surface-to-air missile was fired immediately prior to the accident. However, Somalian officials deny that the aircraft was shot down.