Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China

[Anonymous]

Ok this is interesting...

My friend is a longstanding pilot for United Airlines (and before that, a fighter pilot for the Navy). I was speaking to his wife today and she said when he heard the pilot had a flight simulator at home, he went, "uh-oh…yikes" and suspects the pilot. She said he doesn't know any pilots that have or *would want* a flight simulator at home. She's a surgeon, and she said it's like how weird would it be for her to do surgery all day and then go home and down to her basement and start doing surgeries. You just don't want to do your job for your hobby.

Anyways again, obviously this is just one pilot's opinion, but he does know a bunch of other pilots…so thought it was worth mentioning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok this is interesting...

My friend is a longstanding pilot for United Airlines (and before that, a fighter pilot for the Navy). I was speaking to his wife today and she said when he heard the pilot had a flight simulator at home, he went, "uh-oh…yikes" and suspects the pilot. She said he doesn't know any pilots that have or *would want* a flight simulator at home. She's a surgeon, and she said it's like how weird would it be for her to do surgery all day and then go home and down to her basement and start doing surgeries. You just don't want to do your job for your hobby.

Anyways again, obviously this is just one pilot's opinion, but he does know a bunch of other pilots…so thought it was worth mentioning.

Maybe so he could practice taking up to 40,000 feet and depressurizing the cabin, and the recovering?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok this is interesting...

My friend is a longstanding pilot for United Airlines (and before that, a fighter pilot for the Navy). I was speaking to his wife today and she said when he heard the pilot had a flight simulator at home, he went, "uh-oh…yikes" and suspects the pilot. She said he doesn't know any pilots that have or *would want* a flight simulator at home. She's a surgeon, and she said it's like how weird would it be for her to do surgery all day and then go home and down to her basement and start doing surgeries. You just don't want to do your job for your hobby.

Anyways again, obviously this is just one pilot's opinion, but he does know a bunch of other pilots…so thought it was worth mentioning.

I don't know. Transportation is kind of a "sexy" hobby. Like car guys might work with cars and be all about cars when off the clock. Tattoo artists might be the same. Dog and cat people might work with animals and come home and continue to be weirdo animal people. I can see pilots being in the category. Unless your friend's husband is really familiar with the culture of the pilot, I don't think this experience means much.

[Anonymous]

But what about the cell phones?

Any guesses are junk right now. There is a huge chunk of the puzzle left missing. It's like trying to solve a wheel of fortune clue before the round starts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous



I think this pilot is on to something:

http://marklberry.com/2014/03/16/high-alert-mh370-found/

The pilot is on something, but not really thinking. Jet planes have a huge logistic train. To fly it any where you need 30,000 gallons of fuel. You can't just go down to the gas station and get that, also you have to do maintenance, etc. this has been covered. It is really shocking that people think the only thing that can be used to kill people by terrorist are jet planes. There is so much more to worry about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok this is interesting...

My friend is a longstanding pilot for United Airlines (and before that, a fighter pilot for the Navy). I was speaking to his wife today and she said when he heard the pilot had a flight simulator at home, he went, "uh-oh…yikes" and suspects the pilot. She said he doesn't know any pilots that have or *would want* a flight simulator at home. She's a surgeon, and she said it's like how weird would it be for her to do surgery all day and then go home and down to her basement and start doing surgeries. You just don't want to do your job for your hobby.

Anyways again, obviously this is just one pilot's opinion, but he does know a bunch of other pilots…so thought it was worth mentioning.

I don't know. Transportation is kind of a "sexy" hobby. Like car guys might work with cars and be all about cars when off the clock. Tattoo artists might be the same. Dog and cat people might work with animals and come home and continue to be weirdo animal people. I can see pilots being in the category. Unless your friend's husband is really familiar with the culture of the pilot, I don't think this experience means much.

PP, did you see that he's been a pilot for United? He's in the subculture…their subculture does not include home flight simulators.

I think 20:17 is onto something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:how long till this falls off the news cycle?

30 days total

wake me up in 3 weeks.

[Anonymous]

The pilot had videos on websites. A terrorist could have stumbled on it and contacted him. On the other hand it was the voice of the young pilot that was heard last. He could have been plotting this for years, even before flight school.

[Anonymous]

So all the many, many pilots that have been making the news circuit saying "I own a flight simulator" or "I know lots of pilot nerds that have flight simulators in their home" are just making it up? They're lying?

This is really not telling at all. Flight simulators are products that are made and can be purchased, because there is a demand and customer base. They're not like something you nefariously put together with instructions from the deep dark corners of the internet. Lots of people have them, including a whole lot of pilots. And the vast majority of them are completely harmless.

That doesn't mean this particular pilot may have done something mental, but him owning a flight simulator isn't some kind of red flag, for a long-term aviation veteran.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok this is interesting...

My friend is a longstanding pilot for United Airlines (and before that, a fighter pilot for the Navy). I was speaking to his wife today and she said when he heard the pilot had a flight simulator at home, he went, "uh-oh…yikes" and suspects the pilot. She said he doesn't know any pilots that have or *would want* a flight simulator at home. She's a surgeon, and she said it's like how weird would it be for her to do surgery all day and then go home and down to her basement and start doing surgeries. You just don't want to do your job for your hobby.

Anyways again, obviously this is just one pilot's opinion, but he does know a bunch of other pilots…so thought it was worth mentioning.

Maybe so he could practice taking up to 40,000 feet and depressurizing the cabin, and the recovering?

Flight simulator technology has come a long way, but I would imagine that the hard part of depressurizing the cabin and recovering would be the lack of oxygen. I don't think that flight simulators simulate that.

Flight simulators are toys, games. I am sure that there are plenty of doctors who play "Operation" or "Doc McStuffins" with their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok this is interesting...

My friend is a longstanding pilot for United Airlines (and before that, a fighter pilot for the Navy). I was speaking to his wife today and she said when he heard the pilot had a flight simulator at home, he went, "uh-oh…yikes" and suspects the pilot. She said he doesn't know any pilots that have or *would want* a flight simulator at home. She's a surgeon, and she said it's like how weird would it be for her to do surgery all day and then go home and down to her basement and start doing surgeries. You just don't want to do your job for your hobby.

Anyways again, obviously this is just one pilot's opinion, but he does know a bunch of other pilots…so thought it was worth mentioning.

I don't know. Transportation is kind of a "sexy" hobby. Like car guys might work with cars and be all about cars when off the clock. Tattoo artists might be the same. Dog and cat people might work with animals and come home and continue to be weirdo animal people. I can see pilots being in the category. Unless your friend's husband is really familiar with the culture of the pilot, I don't think this experience means much.

PP, did you see that he's been a pilot for United? He's in the subculture…their subculture does not include home flight simulators.

I think 20:17 is onto something.

I still don't think I agree. But then again, I am someone who does my job for a hobby!

[Anonymous]

Lol if you knew how many athletes sit around playing madden, ncaa, fifa, etc you'd feel like an idiot for thinking anything of a pilot having a flight simulator.

[Anonymous]

On the PPRunse forum many of the pilots have simulators. It seems very very common.

[Anonymous]

Guys, Courtney Love has cracked the case.

http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/03/17/courtney-love-thinks-shes-found-missing-malaysian-airlines-flight-mh370/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok this is interesting...

My friend is a longstanding pilot for United Airlines (and before that, a fighter pilot for the Navy). I was speaking to his wife today and she said when he heard the pilot had a flight simulator at home, he went, "uh-oh…yikes" and suspects the pilot. She said he doesn't know any pilots that have or *would want* a flight simulator at home. She's a surgeon, and she said it's like how weird would it be for her to do surgery all day and then go home and down to her basement and start doing surgeries. You just don't want to do your job for your hobby.

Anyways again, obviously this is just one pilot's opinion, but he does know a bunch of other pilots…so thought it was worth mentioning.

Maybe so he could practice taking up to 40,000 feet and depressurizing the cabin, and the recovering?

Flight simulator technology has come a long way, but I would imagine that the hard part of depressurizing the cabin and recovering would be the lack of oxygen. I don't think that flight simulators simulate that.

Flight simulators are toys, games. I am sure that there are plenty of doctors who play "Operation" or "Doc McStuffins" with their kids.

Google suggests depressurization is one of the emergencies you can work on.

"annual rapid-decompression training in flight simulators"

http://www.executivetravelmagazine.com/articles/how-pilots-handle-aircraft-decompression