WhackyWill Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Well what do you think, almost took the top off our office..!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grundy Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 My work is right next to Southampton airport, they skim our building and make it shake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevoD Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) on another note You whaaaaaa lol Edited March 18, 2014 by StevoD 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhackyWill Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 My work is right next to Southampton airport, they skim our building and make it shake I'm no where near an airport, Heathrow is 20 miles away and big stuff don't fly into Docklands . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimFF Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Our office is just a few metres from the Farnborough runway centreline - you should feel that shake when the air show is on and some one is hurling a fighter around... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almeida1234 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 You should be me. I fly for living lately these things scares me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I'm on several flight paths here. Every day I get EasyJets to and from Liverpool, I'm guessing 500-800 feet (I can easily read the EasyJet logo) but sometimes even lower, quite often get woken up in the middle of the night... lots of Flights coming and going to Manchester as well. Most interesting though is The Beluga that flies in and out of Hawarden to pick up wings from the aerospace factory, they are pretty low as the airport is just 5 miles down the road. There's also traffic in the form of low flying fighter jets from RAF Valley plus a lot of high level flights from London to Ireland and beyond. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ATTAK Z Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I live on a runway ... check out my location ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I lost my phone the other day. Turns out I'd left it in airplane mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMballistic Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 on another note You whaaaaaa lol Melissa naked on her hols!! Fantastic news. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
350 Russ Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I lost my phone the other day. Turns out I'd left it in airplane mode. Shocking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glrnet Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Well what do you think, almost took the top off our office..!! That just looks like a plane landing at an airport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy78 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 on another note You whaaaaaa lol Melissa naked on her hols!! Fantastic news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATTAK Z Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Well what do you think, almost took the top off our office..!! That just looks like a plane landing at an airport That won't work with only the nose wheel down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhackyWill Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 Well what do you think, almost took the top off our office..!! That just looks like a plane landing at an airport That won't work with only the nose wheel down It also wont work as the 20 miles from the nearest airport..!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhackyWill Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) Theory About the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet There has been a lot of speculation about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Terrorism, hijacking, meteors. I cannot believe the analysis on CNN; it’s almost disturbing. I tend to look for a simpler explanation, and I find it with the 13,000-foot runway at Pulau Langkawi. We know the story of MH370: A loaded Boeing 777 departs at midnight from Kuala Lampur, headed to Beijing. A hot night. A heavy aircraft. About an hour out, across the gulf toward Vietnam, the plane goes dark, meaning the transponder and secondary radar tracking go off. Two days later we hear reports that Malaysian military radar (which is a primary radar, meaning the plane is tracked by reflection rather than by transponder interrogation response) has tracked the plane on a southwesterly course back across the Malay Peninsula into the Strait of Malacca.The left turn is the key here. Zaharie Ahmad Shah1 was a very experienced senior captain with 18,000 hours of flight time. We old pilots were drilled to know what is the closest airport of safe harbor while in cruise. Airports behind us, airports abeam us, and airports ahead of us. They’re always in our head. Always. If something happens, you don’t want to be thinking about what are you going to do–you already know what you are going to do. When I saw that left turn with a direct heading, I instinctively knew he was heading for an airport. He was taking a direct route to Palau Langkawi, a 13,000-foot airstrip with an approach over water and no obstacles. The captain did not turn back to Kuala Lampur because he knew he had 8,000-foot ridges to cross. He knew the terrain was friendlier toward Langkawi, which also was closer. The pilot did all the right things. He was confronted by some major event onboard that made him make an immediate turn to the closest, safest airport.For me, the loss of transponders and communications makes perfect sense in a fire. And there most likely was an electrical fire. In the case of a fire, the first response is to pull the main busses and restore circuits one by one until you have isolated the bad one. If they pulled the busses, the plane would go silent. It probably was a serious event and the flight crew was occupied with controlling the plane and trying to fight the fire. Aviate, navigate, and lastly, communicate is the mantra in such situations.When I heard this I immediately brought up Google Earth and searched for airports in proximity to the track toward the southwest.There are two types of fires. An electrical fire might not be as fast and furious, and there may or may not be incapacitating smoke. However there is the possibility, given the timeline, that there was an overheat on one of the front landing gear tires, it blew on takeoff and started slowly burning. Yes, this happens with underinflated tires. Remember: Heavy plane, hot night, sea level, long-run takeoff. There was a well known accident in Nigeria that had a landing gear fire on takeoff. Once going, a tire fire would produce horrific, incapacitating smoke. Yes, pilots have access to oxygen masks, but this is a no-no with fire. Most have access to a smoke hood with a filter, but this will last only a few minutes depending on the smoke level. (I used to carry one in my flight bag, and I still carry one in my briefcase when I fly.) What I think happened is the flight crew was overcome by smoke and the plane continued on the heading, probably on George (autopilot), until it ran out of fuel or the fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed. You will find it along that route–looking elsewhere is pointless. Edited March 18, 2014 by WhackyWill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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