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MH370 Pilot Flew a Suicide Route on His Home Simulator, Matching Final Flight
- greenyoda 10y agoThe confident assertion in the headline is contradicted by one of the later paragraphs: "However, it’s not entirely clear that the recovered flight-simulator data is conclusive. The differences between the simulated and actual flights are significant, most notably in the final direction in which they were heading. It’s possible that their overall similarities are coincidental — that Zaharie didn't intend his simulator flight as a practice run but had merely decided to fly someplace unusual."
- jakozaur 10y agoYeah it looks another sensational header, but public don't know any details. How many test flights did he performed on simulator? If 100+ there will be always something close enough. On the map it looks like the final path is off by at least few hundreds kilometers off.
- TwoBit 10y agoSeriously? Those two paths are off by a few hundred KMs, but are nevertheless very very similar.
- ravingraven 10y agoYeah, especially the beginning of the route, taken to avoid Malaysian airspace. Why would someone do that in the simulator? Also, having practically spent half of my free time flying around in FSX I can tell you, flying over any ocean is boring, it's not something you do for fun. You fly over the ocean to get somewhere.