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Originally posted by Donny 4 million
Presidential candidate says scores of retired and active military and intelligence officials would testify before current grand jury probing government involvement in 9/11 attacks
So in answer to your question, i knew the basics but to fly a 757 over distance and aim for a small target...no. The navigation alone would be a headache.
I suppose there's no real need to know flap, radio and speed settings
This article comes from
Tom Flocco.com
Tom Flocco Now Thoroughly Discredited
Introduction – September 23, 2005
With many thanks to the reader who pointed out the following discrepancies which more or less confirm Tom Flocco's status as a prime disinformation agent. We've had our suspicions for some time but the following proves them quite conclusively. First off, Poland and Austria do not share a common border, yours truly should have picked that up immediately but geography was never a strong point at school. Likewise the Italian lyra is no longer tenable currency, it ceased to be legal tender on February 28, 2002. Which makes claims about fake lyra currency all the more improbable along with everything else claimed by the recent guest on Jeff Rense's internet radio show.
Moreover, a reader has just informed us that location of events reported on Flocco's website has now changed. From being the Austrian Polish border, as originally reported, it's now moved to the Polish German border, which actually exists. Seems like Flocco got wind of his mistake and is now trying to recover his tattered credibility. Ed.
Back on topic,I'm thinking of a auto pilot type homing device like that used in an instrument landing.
... and then the perps would have to override the cockpit controls with a clandestine patch put in somewhere along the way.
Which cuts off the radio.
Originally posted by trueforger
Back on topic,I'm thinking of a auto pilot type homing device like that used in an instrument landing.This way a 'target' could be placed in the building and then the perps would have to override the cockpit controls with a clandestine patch put in somewhere along the way.Which cuts off the radio.All covered by the confusion of alla those 'mock excercises' that day.
Originally posted by CaptainAmerica2012
So the short of the long is that in this thread no one has been able to disprove the topic. All that I have seen is wanna be know it alls that are just willfully ignorant trying to prove their self worth by arguing about nothing.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
WRONG!!!!! Wrong, wrong, wrong. This to any pilot is enough to show that this guy is an idiot. OR a liar, not certain which.
A transponder, firstly, does NOT receive, other than the intrrogatory from the radar facility, which it then 'squawks' back to. AND, the transponder does NOT "operate automatically"!!!! Utter nonsense.
WRONG!!! Each transponder has four digits, each can be dialed from Zero through seven. There is no eight or nine.
This gives a possible combination of 4096 different transponder codes. (Astute readers who are mathematicians will note that there are more 'possible' combinations, but certain codes are NOT used...hence the 4096, which you will sometimes see the transponders referred to by.)
Originally posted by Lillydale
I just want to make sure I am reading this correctly. Wrong! Transponders do NOT receive anything EXCEPT for the signal that they receive.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
A transponder, firstly, does NOT receive, other than the intrrogatory from the radar facility, which it then 'squawks' back to. AND, the transponder does NOT "operate automatically"!!!! Utter nonsense.
I just want to make sure I am reading this correctly. Wrong! Transponders do NOT receive anything EXCEPT for the signal that they receive.
This gives you 4096 to choose from unless you do the math, then you will see that it is much more than 4096 but we only choose from 4096.
Just trying to follow you.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Donny 4 million
This article comes from
Tom Flocco.com
Oh, not again! (face/palm)
Sheesh! He's already thoroughly discredited. But some people refuse to look into his credibility....the facts about him are out there, for all to see....
___________________________________________________________
Adding,
here....debunk THIS:
Tom Flocco Now Thoroughly Discredited
Introduction – September 23, 2005
With many thanks to the reader who pointed out the following discrepancies which more or less confirm Tom Flocco's status as a prime disinformation agent. We've had our suspicions for some time but the following proves them quite conclusively. First off, Poland and Austria do not share a common border, yours truly should have picked that up immediately but geography was never a strong point at school. Likewise the Italian lyra is no longer tenable currency, it ceased to be legal tender on February 28, 2002. Which makes claims about fake lyra currency all the more improbable along with everything else claimed by the recent guest on Jeff Rense's internet radio show.
Moreover, a reader has just informed us that location of events reported on Flocco's website has now changed. From being the Austrian Polish border, as originally reported, it's now moved to the Polish German border, which actually exists. Seems like Flocco got wind of his mistake and is now trying to recover his tattered credibility. Ed.
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk...
[edit on 11 October 2009 by weedwhacker]
I think you completely missed my point. You said that it can NOT receive anything but it does receive something.
I am addressing your own choice of words. You contradict yourself twice and it makes for a confusing post.
Listen! You said this -
The transponder does NOT receive any signals...
...except for the signals that it DOES receive.
Do you see the problem with that statement??????
Then you said this
This limits it to 4096 choices...
...actually it makes it possible for more than 4096, they just only use 4096.
...Squawk codes are four-digit octal numbers; the dials on a transponder read from zero to seven inclusive. Thus the lowest possible squawk is 0000 and the highest is 7777. There are 4096 combinations of these four digit codes, which is why they are often called "4096 code transponders."
Transponders were originally developed to be attached to objects which needed to be located, and are still used in this manner today. A transponder functions by receiving a signal, called an "interrogator" because it is effectively "asking" for information, then automatically conveying a radio wave at a predetermined frequency. In order to broadcast a signal on a different frequency than the one received, a frequency converter is built in. By receiving and transmitting on different frequencies, the interrogator and transponder signals can be detected simultaneously.
The first use of a transponder was onboard an aircraft during World War II, as part of the Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) system. By answering secret interrogation frequencies, pilots could indicate to radar operators that they were friendly aircraft.
Transponders are still common today in both military and commercial aviation. They receive a signal from the ground, and then automatically reply with an identification code for air traffic controllers, as well as altitude information. In aircraft applications, transponders are also configured to amplify the signal in order to make the plane more visible on radar.