Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 07, 2006 02:39 AM
Based on my understanding which could be completely wrong because it's from what is taught in ground school in preperation for one's pilot license exams there is some basis of fact.
Radar in general will spot and track an object in the air; no debate there. Stealth technology obsorbs and deflects the radar radiation to "hide" from it but that's billion dollar technology for specialized needs.
Turning off the transponder is more like taking your name tag off at a convention. Your still there but you can blend into the background alot easier and if you are spotted, no one can tell who you are. This is infact "turning invisible" to air traffic control because there screen full of aircraft identifiers (transponder broadcasts) suddenly has one less blip that apears each sweep.
they wouldn't have been invisible to military aircraft or grand based radar but they would be to air traffic control systems which was the goal since they where not planning on being around long (I speculate at the last bit).
The hyjackers who took control of the planes only need to know how to fly once in the air. Most pilots will agree that take off and landing is where pilots work. Once in the air it's slighly more complicated than driving a car. The hijackers took enough flight training to be able to direct the plane once in the air. Tell a flightschool you want to get your pilots license, pay the initial fee for the orientation flight and your done with the flight training part.
I don't think it was faked. Those buildings really did fall down, there's no questining that. There may be question of who really orcastrated the attacks and how long the government knew about it without being able to act (you really gotta love beucracy huh) but there's no question that those two buildings fell down.
Point is, when your a military/civilian publisher whith highly detailed flightsim involving some of the most advance aircraft of the time showing near classified information something like that haults any further development of your flightsims. No ifs, ands, buts, possiblies; haulted, end of story.
Ironically, it was probably Microsoft Flight Simulator that they used for practice on the flight controls. None of Janes flight sims include civilian aircraft that would have been applicable.
Either way, this isn't the place for a 9/11 discussion beyond mentioning that it ended production on some really great sims (I'm sure there was more than Jane's effected).
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Re:Its all crap,...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 07, 2006 02:39 AMRadar in general will spot and track an object in the air; no debate there. Stealth technology obsorbs and deflects the radar radiation to "hide" from it but that's billion dollar technology for specialized needs.
Turning off the transponder is more like taking your name tag off at a convention. Your still there but you can blend into the background alot easier and if you are spotted, no one can tell who you are. This is infact "turning invisible" to air traffic control because there screen full of aircraft identifiers (transponder broadcasts) suddenly has one less blip that apears each sweep.
they wouldn't have been invisible to military aircraft or grand based radar but they would be to air traffic control systems which was the goal since they where not planning on being around long (I speculate at the last bit).
The hyjackers who took control of the planes only need to know how to fly once in the air. Most pilots will agree that take off and landing is where pilots work. Once in the air it's slighly more complicated than driving a car. The hijackers took enough flight training to be able to direct the plane once in the air. Tell a flightschool you want to get your pilots license, pay the initial fee for the orientation flight and your done with the flight training part.
I don't think it was faked. Those buildings really did fall down, there's no questining that. There may be question of who really orcastrated the attacks and how long the government knew about it without being able to act (you really gotta love beucracy huh) but there's no question that those two buildings fell down.
Point is, when your a military/civilian publisher whith highly detailed flightsim involving some of the most advance aircraft of the time showing near classified information something like that haults any further development of your flightsims. No ifs, ands, buts, possiblies; haulted, end of story.
Ironically, it was probably Microsoft Flight Simulator that they used for practice on the flight controls. None of Janes flight sims include civilian aircraft that would have been applicable.
Either way, this isn't the place for a 9/11 discussion beyond mentioning that it ended production on some really great sims (I'm sure there was more than Jane's effected).
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