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Is it the satellite that instigates the exchange or the aircraft that contacts the satellite? I think the Australians said the intelligence was from the US. There is no doubt in my mind that agencies will be less than helpful primarily protecting their sources and abilities as their priority.

I have the answer, it's obvious. Sign Shaw and Gallagher from Chelsea, Lovren, Wanyama and Lallana from Man Utd, Schneiderlin and Chambers from Arsenal. Then add Rodriguez from Liverpool and Lambert from West Ham and we have the makings of a cracking squad. I see from the papers they are all available!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The receiver obviously interprets the signals. GPS is used to update the IRS's position, increasing accuracy. There is no doubt in my mind that the satellites can be accessed and controlled but it's what it's computers are capable of that intrigues me.

What I thought, but as they are military satellites used by civilians I just wondered what other properties were available.

The planes navigational systems are probably three Inertial Reference Systems, updated by two GPS systems and DME/VOR. Does anybody know whether the GPS / Satellites can be accessed to check what receivers used them?

WHU were pretty close to signing Lambert until Cortese left.

Are you really surprised. Nothing gets printed that criticises the rulers

Male is a long runway (3200m - 10500 ft). Long enough for fully loaded B767-300 with over 300 passengers to take off and fly to the Uk. Landing a 777-plenty of room to do a touch and go.

Changing course using the FMS 'direct to' mode entails just typing in a waypoint and activating, takes seconds and provided L Nav is being used, the autopilot will follow the new track. Otherwise Hdg Sel would be used and the Hdg selected on the rotary knob and digital readout. This deselects the L Nav and en route wouldn't make much sense.

I haven't a clue, but I'm pretty sure the word cluster**** was coined in that part of the world. KL couldn't even see us coming in from the east at 100 miles at 35000. We had to use HF in the South China Sea, VHF wouldn't reach.

The fire theory - the Swissair crew talked to ATC for a relatively long time. It was their failure to immediately turn and descend to the nearest airport that did for them. They might have had a chance otherwise. The crew oxygen masks and smoke goggles or full face mask allow enough time to get down and vent the aircraft. An uncontrollable electrical fire would probably knock out all systems including the autopilot and fly by wire computers. feasible but unlikely. I don't get the 45000 ft altitude. Max alt 43500ft. I flew an empty 767-300 at 43000 but had to descend because of turbulence as it was on the limit of it's envelope. I don't think a 777 with 239 on board probably plus freight and probably total fuel for maybe 7-8 hours could fly at 45000ft without stalling.

I used to find that nobody ever would admit they didn't have a clue if they didn't know because of loss of face.

Most professional would find the fixed base simulators so mind numbingly easy that perhaps 5 minutes would bore them into turning it upside down or fly it through the control tower Most pilots do other things, play golf, chase crumpet, watch football etc. As for the 777, Eric Moody (747 Glider pilot and Saintsweb member) and I on Sat after match talked about it, neither of us have a clue, although we both flew over that way. The only conclusions we came to, it crashed or it landed somewhere, it was hi-jacked or it wasn't, the crew were involved or weren't. The fact nobody tracked the aircraft is the least surprising thing in that area. It could be anywhere. For me, if it is parked somewhere, possible but surprising, if not may be found in deep jungle, or in the ocean off the beaten track. The jungle seems a better bet.

Ramirez had cramp according to Pochettino. JWP needs to stop playing passes without looking. He dropped us in it six or seven times in our own area then did it again for the goal. This young man hasn't really improved since the start of last season unlike Chambers, Shaw and Gallagher. We can't afford him in the middle of the field playing the way he is. Lambert showed class with his goal and pass to Rodriguez. Boruc needs a sharp kick up the backside, his kicking was awful and some of his short pass outs were just stupid. We got away with that today.

Sounds easy to me.

If everybody was unconscious nothing would change. The transponder would stay on it's original selection. However in the cabin the Oxygen masks would drop as the cabin altitude increased, the crew have portable Oxygen bottles. The pilots have masks that can be inflated and put on in seconds. Emergency descents are practiced regularly in the simulator. I used to mentally run through all the memory items while in the cruise every day I flew. Only took about 5 mins reading the Check List and looking at the relevant controls. A King Air was lost on a test flight from Southern England and crashed in Brittany after running out of fuel. One of our crews positioned from Orlando to Cancun in Payne Stewart's Learjet just before the loss. I asked the Captain where were the Oxygen masks and he said he was never told!! It sounded like a sloppy operation.

The aircraft would only follow the vertical profile if it was in V nav. Presumably it was in L nav. V nav is rarely used for descents because of changes made by ATC in terminal areas.

Don't know what they are moaning about, Roy Lunnis gave them years of enjoyment.

My company wet leased an aircraft to Malaysian, I found them pretty good. The 777 had a problem with fuel icing, don't know whether it's been sorted, As for communications it's not European cover. Used HF a lot if we could get anybody to answer, I found the Vietnamese a pain in the arse on RT. It may be there was no coverage as they were reported 150 miles off Vietnam coast. Malaysia is predominately Muslim so I would have thought there would have been little threat.

Well he doesn't have to pick a centre back to play against the likes of Suarez, Van Persie, Crouch, Benteke etc, It's against U19, mostly reserve players. Chambers is a regular Premier defender and should be able to stroll through an U19 friendly wherever he plays.

As far as I know he was arrested three weeks ago and hasn't yet been charged. What is more concerning at the moment is the way he resigned and was subsequently arrested, not by the Met who have a specialist unit but by the National Crime Agency who operate in secrecy, were contacted direct and will not confirm or deny that anybody has been arrested. This smacks of a political cover up. It has been reported that after the images were discovered and Cameron informed he was allowed to resign before the Police were informed. The leak apparently came from Parliament.

. I thought that looked like hamstring.

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That'll work. We won't take any gas from the pipeline the Russians will cut off or the Ukrainians will block. I thought we had visa restrictions for non EU countries already. The bull****ting politicians will have their bluff called by the Russians who don't do politics. The veto will take care of the UN. The US will file it in the too difficult to deal with drawer. I'm sure the EU commission will deal with it, after all they ****ed the Russians off by suggesting closer ties

FFS it's easy, send half a dozen aircraft carriers into the Black Sea and invade through Germany with 2m troops and 10k tanks supported by 5k aircraft I thought it was obvious what we have to do, stay out of it.