These Great men & women should never ever be forgotten, they paid the ultimate sacrifice for our liberty.
Thanks to Kev35 I have found out alot of detail about my Great Uncle who died for the cause liberating Burma from the Japanese in 1944. We are currently researching more and more. My eternal thanks must go to Kev, he knows how I feel about it.

What gets me is that the 2 great wars are not generally taught at GCSE level, it focuses more on history before the wars and back to 1066 etc. Our children, and our children’s children must be educated properly on how important WWI & II were in shaping our futures.

This little poem says it all

[color=red]When you go home,
Tell Them of us and say,
For your tomorrow,
We gave our today.[/color]

Giblets

Not quite sure how the main thread is going off topic, afterall the FDR data (or lack of) that was sent back to AF and the following discussions are still very relevant.

With this in mind this thread can stay “for now”, but if we have any discussions about the AF disappearance on here, thus having 2 threads running then this one will be locked or deleted.

Dean

I have to disagree with the CVR/FDR thing, the CVR would certainly take alot of bandwidth to send, but the FDR would not. The FDR on my aircraft only records about 80 channels of information, and it’s all in “trend” format, so the data would actually be reasonably small.

What I don’t understand is why they have no FDM data downloaded, I was under the impression FDM (Fligth Data Monitoring) was mandatory in JAR land (Now EASA) on public transport aircraft wth more than 19 seats.
Maybe someone with an engineering background in the know could tell us how the FDM actually works and whether it can still download in a catastrophic crash?

We have FDM and in the event of a serious incident it will download the data directly to the main computers at the company. The good thing regarding FDM is that it can record over 500 channels, it far outweighs the FDR.

Well before we all get on our high horse the word on the street is that it was an inside job from a “disgruntled” employee. So you could have 250 backups, it’s irrelevant if he knew how to get his hands on it.

1. 747-400

2. 777-300ER

3. Airbus 330-300

oi !!!

There was absolutely no need for that. Oh well, with my landings, and your dodgy photos we make a right pair 😀

Before this question is answered why do you ask?