How Can an Aircraft Disappear Over the Ocean?

Re:How Can an Aircraft Disappear Over the Ocean? by TeMPOraL on Saturday January 03, 2015 @05:13PM (#8832219)

With a little bit of trickery you could even easily cut that by half (e.g. drop the first few significant digits because the general area you're flying through can be assumed to be known, etc.).

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Re:How Can an Aircraft Disappear Over the Ocean? by UnoriginalGuy on Saturday January 03, 2015 @07:31PM (#8832659)

Eww. So now the entire system depends on database matches back at home to work at all (since positions are relative, not absolute) and you have to test and engineer it significantly more to look for possible problems caused by hacking it this way.

Just eww. That's a terrible idea. Just spend the extra bits and save the headache of over-engineering it and then trying to fix all the problems you'll inherently create.

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Re:How Can an Aircraft Disappear Over the Ocean? by TeMPOraL on Sunday January 04, 2015 @06:17AM (#8834097)

Yeah, I know. But the point is, it's few dozen bits every other minute - airlines, come on, Iridium can't be that expensive.

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