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by Vayutuvan
14 Jul 2025 01:33
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

vera_k wrote: 14 Jul 2025 01:30 The only thing that makes sense to me as to why the CVR transcript is not released is that an active investigation is under way. And they do not want to tip off any actors involved.
That makes eminent sense.
by Vayutuvan
14 Jul 2025 01:33
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

The FAA's notification to Civil Aviation Authorities, seen by Reuters, said: "although the fuel control switch design, including the locking feature, is similar on various Boeing airplane models, the FAA does not consider this issue to be an unsafe condition that would warrant an Airworthiness...
by Vayutuvan
14 Jul 2025 01:25
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

... 4.. The aircraft achieved the maximum recorded airspeed of 180 Knots IAS at about 08:08:42 UTC and immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec. The Engine N1 and N2 began to decrease ...
by Vayutuvan
14 Jul 2025 01:14
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

The above is a advisory and not mandatory because you may accidentally "bump" into one of the switches but not both which have independent controls. I am questioning why Boeing didn't make into an AD, i.e. directive which is mandatory. The problem seems top be serious enough to warrant a ...
by Vayutuvan
14 Jul 2025 00:29
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Miscellaneous Topics thread
Replies: 82
Views: 40671

Re: Miscellaneous Topics thread

@Haresh ji, https://www.gold-eagle.com/authors/jayant-bhandari Jayant Bhandari is constantly traveling the world to look for investment opportunities, particularly in the natural resource sector. He advises institutional investors about his finds. Earlier, he worked for six years with US Global Inve...
by Vayutuvan
14 Jul 2025 00:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10332
Views: 3092557

Re: Understanding the US - Again

drnayar wrote: 13 Jul 2025 23:52 Fox is pro Trump. Don't know which channel to believe in anymore !
Many folks believe the Steele dossier. :((
by Vayutuvan
14 Jul 2025 00:23
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10332
Views: 3092557

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Trump is most likely on the epstein list. Russia has good "hard" evidence on Trump! :D If that were to be the case, Biden admin would have released the list long ago (after redacting the names of their boys - Bill Clinton/Bill Gates/Tom Hanks/Ellen De Generis/and other hollowheads of Burb...
by Vayutuvan
14 Jul 2025 00:19
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

The switches are physical (switch is a two-position 'latching' switch with a physical detent to prevent inadvertent operation-- see red arrow in picture showing the detent) and the physically selected position of either "run" or "cutoff" is electrically sensed and recorded with ...
by Vayutuvan
13 Jul 2025 06:57
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011
Replies: 4756
Views: 1115967

Re: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011

bala wrote: 13 Jul 2025 06:42 The Indian government released pictures of the nuclear tests it carried on May 11th, 1988. 1998
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by Vayutuvan
13 Jul 2025 06:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Social Media Watch Thread
Replies: 2051
Views: 929775

Re: Social Media Watch Thread

The acocryphal story I related above took place in Pune. :twisted:
by Vayutuvan
13 Jul 2025 06:54
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

Apparently, there are reasons that engines get turned off to save fuel. Airline pilots, what fuel saving measures does your airline implement? That is not an emergency situation. There should be majority voting in that case, i.e. both pilots in agreement, i.e. two sets switches and only when autopi...
by Vayutuvan
13 Jul 2025 06:16
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

Just asking a dumb question: why allow engines to be turned of during flight. I don't see the need to ever turn of engines in flight for a commercial aircraft. Are there some situations which warrants a turn off engines during flight? If there are none, the act of switch off engines in altitude sho...
by Vayutuvan
13 Jul 2025 06:13
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

What telemetry is recorded? Switch position from the switch itself or from some fuel pump controller/ECU? Exactly my doubt as well. Switch positions can be seen only if there are pictures. Am I correct in saying that CVR and FDR do not have any imaging capability? My understanding is that they reco...
by Vayutuvan
13 Jul 2025 06:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10332
Views: 3092557

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Please check out the 1930’s Indian Provincial Elections The Jihadis and Muslim League suffered The Unionist Party wanted to maintain the Zamindari as they controlled much of Punjab The jihadi enticed the party members with promises of Zamidari and if not agreeable then pure intimidation Eventually ...
by Vayutuvan
13 Jul 2025 05:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Social Media Watch Thread
Replies: 2051
Views: 929775

Re: Social Media Watch Thread

Now I'm seeing a post about one unfinished flyover, held up due to land acquisition issue... A building needs to be demolished... However, it is being portrayed as if some fool planned it without noticing a building, and only noticed the building after construction started... True story from my thi...
by Vayutuvan
13 Jul 2025 05:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Social Media Watch Thread
Replies: 2051
Views: 929775

Re: Social Media Watch Thread

Your tier3 city NHAI officer takes home over Rs50 lakhs per month after meeting the office's monthly rishwat quota! That is an extraordinary claim. I know that there is a lot of graft, but this figure is unimaginable. Maybe I am too much removed from the current day India. The very fact that recent...
by Vayutuvan
12 Jul 2025 04:23
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

Anyway, I don't think we can divine this one out through deductive logic. Atleast, I can't. :-?
by Vayutuvan
12 Jul 2025 04:20
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

We can't say for sure which pilot is lying. The one to ask the question might have wanted to put the suspicion on the second one or it was genuine question and the second lied. Did one of the pilots get replaced after they got into the plane by a passenger? Then there won't be any change in the crew...
by Vayutuvan
12 Jul 2025 03:34
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

Would the switches be accessible to > a jumpseat passenger in the cockpit, like a deadheading crew member ? My guess is that (long time back I had a glance into a cockpit of a plane, pilot and copilot are seated such that, if anybody accesses any of the dials or switches they have to reach out from ...
by Vayutuvan
12 Jul 2025 03:28
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10332
Views: 3092557

Re: Understanding the US - Again

India was and even now is a fair country, fair to all the citizens, to large extent, notwithstanding the corruption and caste politics.
by Vayutuvan
12 Jul 2025 03:27
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10332
Views: 3092557

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Land Ceiling Acts, urban and farmland, could have played a big role in lifting people out of poverty on top of INC welfare schemes. Pakistan never had any reforms and hence they have still have feudal lords - zamindars, zagirdars, maqtedars, and such. It is hard to find people with large lands in In...
by Vayutuvan
12 Jul 2025 03:18
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

This is scary if one of the pilots indeed do this. If pilots cant be trusted no one can be. But they did not, if I understand the CVR conversation correctly. This part In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff . The other pilot responded that he d...
by Vayutuvan
12 Jul 2025 03:17
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

So in 10 seconds they toggled back. Those 10 seconds duration was the critical period. Is it possible that there is race condition either in the software or the controller electronics that led to cycling and the auto start to happen? Going by the above, with high probability this is not a pilot error.
by Vayutuvan
12 Jul 2025 03:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Israel-Hezbollah-Iran War
Replies: 622
Views: 152177

Re: Israel-Hezbollah-Iran War

Now I am confused. If they have not removed the U, how come there are no radioactive leak signatures? Does that mean they are placed in hardened containers which survived the MoAB blasts? If so, Iran can retrieve them in time.
by Vayutuvan
12 Jul 2025 02:58
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 2168
Views: 885537

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

chetak wrote: 11 Jul 2025 19:49... a senior minister, who is deliberately bucking the system, and at times, speaking out intemperately, and belittling the central leadership,
:?: It can't be Minister Gadkari or is he?!!!
by Vayutuvan
12 Jul 2025 02:55
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 2168
Views: 885537

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

SRajesh wrote: 11 Jul 2025 16:46 ^^But Chetakji
Haven't you noticed that the knives are out!!
Now the new Modus Operandi is the magical 75
...
I don't understand what standing INC and opposition has on the issue of what age RSS and/or BJP folks retire.
by Vayutuvan
12 Jul 2025 01:26
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: BR Maths Corner-1
Replies: 2364
Views: 809935

Re: BR Maths Corner-1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4kOh7qlsM4 ~ 29 min video on Riemann Hypothesis. Totally self-contained (including a quick 5 min introduction to complex number plane) with lovely animations. What is the Riemann Hypothesis REALLY about? HexagonVideos 674,508 views Dec 12, 2022 Solve one equation an...
by Vayutuvan
12 Jul 2025 00:41
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 5350
Views: 2364930

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

I was curious about fitna-al-hindustan. Here is a one month old article on when that terminology came into existence and why. https://countercurrents.org/2025/06/pakistans-new-label-for-baloch-fighters-reflects-a-deeper-crisis-of-state-legitimacy/ In a striking new development, the Government of Pak...
by Vayutuvan
11 Jul 2025 23:42
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion
Replies: 7025
Views: 3082443

Re: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion

SRajesh wrote: 11 Jul 2025 13:38 ^^^Adityaji
There are 4 spokes in this Engine Wheel:
1.Politcos
2.Babus
3.Services
4.Import lobby
If two of the above four join together then no amount of jingoism is going to get us the engine tech.
Would No. 4 be able to payoff others? That might have been the case during non-BJP govt.
by Vayutuvan
11 Jul 2025 05:20
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

A_Gupta wrote: 11 Jul 2025 02:49 The Japan authority never issued a report, at least, I could not find it here.

https://jtsb.mlit.go.jp/airrep.html
That is odd. That is a serious problem isn't it? Both the engines shutting down, I mean.
by Vayutuvan
11 Jul 2025 02:17
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Israel-Hezbollah-Iran War
Replies: 622
Views: 152177

Re: Israel-Hezbollah-Iran War

Probably Nobel will be given to KD Harris now that Trump has been nominated by Bibi. That cancels islam pasand Nobel Committee's taking note Failed Marshall's recommendation.

All our DNC operatives would celebrate with fireworks and distributing mithai. :mrgreen:
by Vayutuvan
11 Jul 2025 02:13
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 2119
Views: 1155138

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015

Ricky_v ji, A nightmare scenario would be The US: AOC is the POTUS and Mamdani VPOTUS with Ilhan Omar in-charge of homeland security, Rashida Tlaib as secy of state, The Bern as secy of treasury, ... India: Rahul Gandhi as PM, Jairam Ramesh as MoEA, Mani Shankar Aiyer as Home minister, ... Shittista...
by Vayutuvan
11 Jul 2025 02:05
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 2168
Views: 885537

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

VKumar wrote: 09 Jul 2025 02:59 Same is true for bulk drugs, dyes and other polluting industries.
That is interesting. We can't live without them nor can we live with them. Dyes are required for paints which prevent rust. Not a chemical engineer but do dyes have any functional uses or are they simply for aesthetics? (OT sorry)
by Vayutuvan
11 Jul 2025 01:51
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10575
Views: 3918766

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

A_Gupta wrote: 10 Jul 2025 22:16 I tried the KT-Bilawal interview and couldn’t get past 2 minutes.
Good call. KT himself was his usual insufferable self. Bilawal just lied while smiling and playing with hyperventilating KT. This blawaal guy is an awwal lier and a snake.
by Vayutuvan
11 Jul 2025 01:36
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6266
Views: 1707795

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

Previous instance of dual engine failure, but happened after the plane was on the ground. Couldn't find more about what caused it though. ANA Boeing 787 Dreamliner Suffers Dual Engine Failure On Landing From the above 2019 article, this caught my eye. Simple Flying will provide an update as soon as...
by Vayutuvan
10 Jul 2025 07:15
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Bangladesh News and Discussion
Replies: 3863
Views: 1314632

Re: Bangladesh News and Discussion

bala wrote: 10 Jul 2025 00:21 ... but they keep bringing in "5 year old would write" ...
Macaulay Puttar Syndrome (MPD). Folks feel good about ispeeking good angrez so much so that they fargate they or naat goraa but naatu naatu onlee. :rotfl:
by Vayutuvan
10 Jul 2025 05:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10575
Views: 3918766

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

US Dept of State briefing, July 8th. Two excerpts below. If you understand what was said, please post. Pakistan: ... So what are your thoughts on these lies and rogue behavior of Modi cabinet members? MS BRUCE: (Laughter.) ... so many of you are much younger than I am – we’re my generation perhaps,...
by Vayutuvan
10 Jul 2025 02:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 5350
Views: 2364930

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

Unfortunately too many, including upto LK Advani had a fuzzy belief that the two peoples could get along. One exception was PV saab. I guess it is similar with Pranab da. But then PV's disciple Dr MMS (who also said that he revered PV like his father) was also a believer in Pakistani goodness. PV h...
by Vayutuvan
10 Jul 2025 01:06
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10332
Views: 3092557

Re: Understanding the US - Again

It was not difficult but I still had to stand in line for the immigration guy . Then strangely, later after we picked up our baggage , one guy (customs) addressed a group of us and asked us one question: "any of you any thing to declare?" and everyone said 'No' in unison and were waved th...
by Vayutuvan
10 Jul 2025 01:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10332
Views: 3092557

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Last night I landed at SFO from Paris except I transited through Montreal. From Montreal I landed at Domestic terminal at SFO just like as if I came from any of the US states. No customs, no immigration check. May be I did go through pre-clearance at Montreal without even noticing it. No one asked ...