Malaysian Boeing 777 missing

[donKey jote]

I just wonder whether the pilot had dark eyes, like the majority of the people in that part of the world... We all know dark-eyed people are dodgy !

[driveace]

CEO of AirAsia is Tony Fernandes is he still a F1 team owner
That's sounds slanderous insinuating all people with dark eyes are dodgy ,but then again your a mine of information donkey!

[donKey jote]

Yeah well most Muslim pilots have dark eyes... Let's pray this one didn't !

[Storm]

CEO of AirAsia is Tony Fernandes is he still a F1 team owner
That's sounds slanderous insinuating all people with dark eyes are dodgy ,but then again your a mine of information donkey!

He was owner of Caterham and still owns Caterham Cars I think...
Launched AirAsia India from my city just last week-end too

[Storm]

looks like they at least found this plane

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/30/wo...html?hpt=hp_t1

[Roamy]

what they don't tell you is that when the pitot tubes freeze the computer takes over and stalls the airplane. They blamed the pilot for this in the Air France crash. They are trying to tell you that the pilot has final say so and this is not true. Hence the old saying "if it ain't a Boeing I ain't going" Boeing planes allow the pilot the final say so. You Euros will probably say I am full of sh!t but Airbus is a roach !!! You can't convince me that the pilots are so dumb they can't fly the artificial horizon. If you freeze the pitot tube the computer will lower the nose which is why the Air France pilot had the joystick pulled back. They will find the black boxes with this crash but do you really think they will tell the truth??

[driveace]

Your talking a lot of sense there Roamy

[Rudy Tamasz]

what they don't tell you is that when the pitot tubes freeze the computer takes over and stalls the airplane. They blamed the pilot for this in the Air France crash. They are trying to tell you that the pilot has final say so and this is not true. Hence the old saying "if it ain't a Boeing I ain't going" Boeing planes allow the pilot the final say so. You Euros will probably say I am full of sh!t but Airbus is a roach !!! You can't convince me that the pilots are so dumb they can't fly the artificial horizon. If you freeze the pitot tube the computer will lower the nose which is why the Air France pilot had the joystick pulled back. They will find the black boxes with this crash but do you really think they will tell the truth??

Isn't Boeing something like a typical American car with everything automated and the pilot's role reduced to pointing the thing in the right direction?

[Roamy]

Isn't Boeing something like a typical American car with everything automated and the pilot's role reduced to pointing the thing in the right direction?

No Rudy that is the Airbus

[schmenke]

For clarity, it’s the pitot tube heater that may fail. The pitot tube itself is a static instrument with nothing more than a pressure transducer that measures the difference between the static and dynamic pressure. This difference is used to calculate relative velocity (which is why F1 cars use pitot tubes to calculate the car’s speed).

Because the pitot tube sticks out in the airstream it’s subject to icing, similar to the leading edges of wings, which is why an internal heater is used. I know on many smaller airplanes the pilot must manually engage the heater when icing may occur. I don’t know if this is an automated function on large commercial airplanes though.

Sorry, a bit OCD, I know .