Posted on 03/18/2014 6:46:03 PM PDT by Kevin in California
My kid downloaded this “Fly Omar to Kandahar” game from an Iranian website. He is very sorry and didn’t realize he was controlling a real 777. He said it was over the Himalayas before the “blue screen of death” wiped the hard drive killed the PC.
what is a “stolen transponder code”?
FNC has succumbed to the programming of the alphabet networks. Tonight, 3/18, there is no news on FNC, just wall to wall repetitious coverage about the missing flight.
Hint: Obama knows exactly what happened and where that flight now is.
I have my theories.
I think David Copperfield made it disappear.
I think this one was flown by Diip In Sii.
the regurgitation in this coverage is unbelievable.
There is no such thing. The transponder is a device that is manually set with a code by the pilot at the request and direction of air traffic control. In general aviation it is a 4 digit code. It is the equivalent of a number being assigned to a marathon runner you wear during the race. The transponder ("mode C" transponders) broadcasts airspeed and altitude and that information can then be tracked along with the position (from radar) by ATC.
There is the newer “Mode S’ transponder, it’s code is assigned to the the A/C upon registration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_transponder_interrogation_modes
http://www.eurocontrol.int/articles/mode-s-technical-overview
I am always wondering what “else” is going on in the world when stories like these become the ONLY news. Found an app for news that finally tells me what else is going on. I have an Ipad my son has an Android...works on both. It is News360. You can program it like you can Pandora and soon it learns your interests. You can read the darned thing for hours! The point is, there is PLENTY of other news out there. Too bad we don’t have a “news” network to go to when one of these news stories blankets the rest if the news. So when you get it tired of “370”... Change course and go to “360”... There’s an app for that!
The media will seize upon whatever “squirrel” they can find to distract the public from the REAL issues of the day.
Hmmm...a posted article about the tiresome coverage of the article’s subject.
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