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To: Norseman

The only reliable data you can get from the pings is that the engine is still running.

Distance is derived by ASSUMING a velocity, and an approximate course too.

Its all assumptions for the pings.

163 posted on 03/23/2014 6:32:51 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)

To: editor-surveyor

Distance is derived by ASSUMING a velocity, and an approximate course too.

We can tell that you don't work for Boeing, or the airlines, or NASA, or anywhere where accuracy is important.

169 posted on 03/23/2014 6:39:25 PM PDT by Uncle Chip

To: editor-surveyor

Why couldn’t the 777 avionics provide lat/lon/el as part of the data sent to the sat?

190 posted on 03/23/2014 7:42:04 PM PDT by CodeToad (Keeping whites from talking about blacks is verbal segregation!)

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