You see, I don't put much into the theory of he was practicing flying to Diego Garcia on his SIM. Its a British and US military base - they wouldn't be welcoming him. If he was practicing landing there it was probably because it was a challenge to navigate and land there.

I knew that was next. Anything else birth'er boi?

Who let the tea bagger in here?

And would you agree Shanster that the mind set of the Government - perhaps the culture - is follow me/listen to what I say/don't ask questions? We in the West might call this paternalistic - Malaysians might call it respect. Is that a fair assessment?

Any TVR...

Red Bull are laughing.

Which is what a lot of GT3 RS guys are doing; putting the over priced carbon rotors and 'yellow' calipers up on a shelf for when they sell it and going back to the 'big reds, standard OEM drilled rotors, dumping the center nut rims with the 500 foot pound torque and special grease and buy new hubs so they can go back…

"People consider the Corvette a car, whereas people consider the Viper a novelty. Like a sex toy huh? :)

I think he's saying:

Exactly.

Fix them and give them to the 996 owners who have spent thousands FIXING the faults in the M96 engines that Porsche SHOULD have recalled!!!

"I wasn't too happy about this whole season." Really... How much did you pay to watch it? ;)

The jury is still out on that. The airline says one thing and the Government is saying another on time frames. My take on this situation is that the only motive that makes sense is suicide, hiding the aircraft in 4km deep water and a possible life insurance policy for someones family. We have two other precedents for…

Someone explain what was wrong with the old software? (shaking head)

(edited reply as reply sent to wrong person)

Quite right - my apologies.

Red Bull's reaction to the issue both during practice, during the race and now with this appeal leads me to believe the rumors of Christian Horner was being considered as the replacement for Bernie was just so much BS. If the guy was moving on (or wanted to) from Red Bull he wouldn't be allowing the team to tangle…

We now hear that the last voice heard from the cockpit *after* the data transmission system was turned off and *after* the transponder was turned off was the 1st officer saying good night. Voice stress analysis by the FBI showed no issues compared to other tapes of him pulled from ATC recordings. Indicates acting in…

FYII: The voice and data recorders have accessible circuit breakers...

From the captains Facebook page - his last post before flying...* He was politically involved with the candidate just jailed in Malaysia under some sodomy laws.