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Cloud deck at 200' and they are shooting visual approach ... nice! I guess this is Indonesia.

I was talking in general, not in reference to this particular incident.

Really has nothing to do with Airbus systems or Boeing systems or some other 'systems'. This is a mistake that can happen when pilot decides to use a shortcut and land on runway he can all of a sudden see without double-checking it is the right runway. Since 99.9% of time there is no such conflicting airport nearby - it is easy o see why pilot may skip verification. Flying purely using visual cues is as old as aviation and it will always be important part of situational awareness in the cockpit - regardless of 'systems'.

Fltplan.com a big advantage - it is free and comes with the charts (US + Canada). If you have specific charts (your own, FSX specific, etc, etc) that you want to view - there are numerous apps to view pdf, doc and other document formats.

Actually, for aircraft performance (by this we mean 'aerodynamic performance') the only speed that matters is IAS (indicated air speed). TAS only starts to matter when you want to know how soon am I going to arrive to my destination. Therefore in initial pilot's training - you don't even have to know what TAS is.

Most likely you went beyond software's design envelope - what you got was what is commonly called an 'undefined' result.

Thank ground rescue personnel and cabin crew. As to the cockpit crew - they may have culpability in what happened. But true, always could have been worse.

It is very good but I would give Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum a slight edge.

I purchased PC in October 2014, came with OEM Win 7 (because this is what I wanted) and I never had problem that some other OS was shoved down my throat. Never got any prompts, solicitation, suggestion, etc to upgrade.

This is after AvHerald: On May 20th 2016 The Aviation Herald received information from three independent channels, that ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) messages with following content were received from the aircraft: 00:26Z 3044 ANTI ICE R WINDOW 00:26Z 561200 R SLIDING WINDOW SENSOR 00:26Z 2600 SMOKE LAVATORY SMOKE 00:27Z 2600 AVIONICS SMOKE 00:28Z 561100 R FIXED WINDOW SENSOR 00:29Z 2200 AUTO FLT FCU 2 FAULT 00:29Z 2700 F/CTL SEC 3 FAULT no further ACARS messages were received Clearly at this point absolutely nothing could be said whether it is terrorist related or not. It could easily go either way. http://avherald.com/h?article=4987fb09&opt=7168

.. what information? There is no information besides that flight is missing. EgyptAir 990 also 'disappeared' in 1999 an no 'in flight' beak up was involved. So did Egyptian Flash Air 604- no in-flight beak-up. Many flights disappeared one way or another with no in-flight break-up. Actually in-flight break-up is pretty rare.

"catastrophic" absolutely doesn't have to imply "inflight breakup". Yes, most likely it was a catastrophic event of some kind but it is impossible to say anything more.

Boeing delivered over 400 of them so it shouldn't be a surprise.

Please spare me your propaganda ...

I beg to differ.

Oh my God, the same idiotic Al Jazeera 787-video topic returning after two years? I can't believe it. Al Jazeera is as good as Russia Today (RT).

This aircraft is actually better known under the name of Swearingen - from the name of it's original designer. SJ30 had a very painful birth including a deadly crash during certification (due to errors in design), company went bankrupt more than once, changed ownership, etc. This is probably a prime example how challenging and costly is process of developing and certifying a new jet but the aircraft has some amazing performance capabilities. I don't know how well it sells though.

AHRS relies on much more than magnetic flux, it is a tiny microelectromechanical (MEMS) package that contains gyros, accelerometers, etc. If flux data is lost you will lose heading info but everything else remains.

There is a very technical discussion of the subject, including IAS calculation and other parameters of this flight on pprune.org. Interesting graphs to look at. Unfortunately it is like 900 posts .. you have to read it yourself. The discussion of speeds, stall regime starts at about post #860 and goes on ... So yes, lots of data is missing but something like speed data can be derived (with some error) from what's available.

I don't think they were ever close to a stall, speed data doesn't indicate anything like that. One thing is also clear - they were flying this G/A manually.

But why? What is here to discuss? Who cares what some ###### writes about anything. On top of that you exhibit all the traits of one of those fan-boys you are so eager to rail against. You are under 18? - it shows. BTW, I own neither of these two products, never owned any 747 sim, never cared for a 747 on my desktop but just looking at this video alone - I would have a hard time picking up the winner. I did notice a most likely slightly better resolution of the iFly's cockpit rendering.

And where exactly is "here"?? Don't you think this info would be helpful? I am in the US and made a trip last year to France and flew on Norwegian's 787 - it was relatively "cheap" (in comparison to other offerings). There was a layover in Oslo.

Yes, I know, the info is still vague.

Is it Tesla 3 or S? Tesla S 90kWh has a range of just about 250 m at 70 mph (assuming flat terrain). I prefer to talk Tesla S since 3 doesn't really exist yet, we don't know what car it will be, what options, interior, prices, etc. I have no problem with all your calculations except the price of the actual car is conspicuously left out. Tesla S with that range that's almost $80K, almost twice as much as I am about to pay for a very nice and rather luxuriously appointed Lexus, brand new, and not one of their tiny hybrids. Perhaps one day there will be a Tesla that will make immediate sense for me in terms of all the factors I care about.

Sounds to me like a pure electric-car propaganda, I never heard anyone raise those points as arguments against electric cars, except perhaps the range, range is indeed limited, if I want to drive 500+ miles (which are often do) and accomplish it in 8 or so hours in a fairly sparsely populated areas I could use perhaps a hybrid but purely electric car is of little use to me. But another point is totally missing here - price. Of course I do understand that if your primary use of the car is commute to work or drive around town - electric car could be a Godsend.