To: Moose4
Wouldn’t your NAVCOM and GPS give you true data? Assuming it is still operational at this point...
29 posted on
06/04/2009 1:50:07 PM PDT by
Clay Moore
(Obama: A good example of why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
To: Clay Moore
GPS gives Ground Speed.
Ground Speed is absolutely useless for maintaining control of an airplane.
35 posted on
06/04/2009 2:01:51 PM PDT by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Clay Moore
It is unclear whether the pilot wanted to manually change course to avoid a dangerous cloud zone – an extremely difficult manoeuvre at such high altitude. So now it's a extremely difficult to turn at high speed????
The Airbus is more limited than I thought
Pure BS
36 posted on
06/04/2009 2:03:26 PM PDT by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: Clay Moore
>>Wouldn’t your NAVCOM and GPS give you true data? Assuming it is still operational at this point...<<
From what I have heard on the news (and I am NOT the best source) there are holes in GPS tracking for places that don’t get a lot of traffic. There isn’t complete satellite coverage for the entire planet.
69 posted on
06/04/2009 2:37:53 PM PDT by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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