{"id":3198,"date":"2014-03-30T22:32:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T03:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2014-03-31T11:02:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T16:02:33","slug":"da-plane-da-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/30\/da-plane-da-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Airlines 370, Please Phone Home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK Here&#8217;s my opinion on the whole Missing Plane thing. <em>( I know no one asked for it but here it is anyway)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>1st.<\/strong> I do not think the Malaysian Officials are Hiding anything, I feel that they are In so far over their heads that they don&#8217;t know how to conduct this investigation and are too proud to ask the world <strong>&#8220;We Don&#8217;t know what we are doing, will someone please take this over?&#8221;<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>2nd.<\/strong> I think that this is going to turn out to be something that <strong>no one has ever seen of thought of before.<\/strong> <em>(Remember if you would have told us on Sept. 10th 2001 that someone would have used planes for what they did we would have said NO WAY.)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>3rd.<\/strong> <em>(Now for my rant)<\/em>  For those of our new members who don&#8221;t know me, I am a Over the Road Truck Driver who drives Coast to Coast, Border to Border. I have a device in my Truck Made by Qualcomm Corp. Called a Mobile Computing Platform Or MCP 50 aka. <strong>E-Log unit<\/strong>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/index.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/index-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"index\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3200\" \/><\/a> This technology is mandated by our friends at the Guvmint <em><strong>(You know those who have never done but tell us how to)<\/strong><\/em>. It was because of the Griping and Lobbying of a couple of special interest groups who have also never sat behind the wheel.<br \/>\nWith this unit my company can tell everything that my truck is doing at any given moment <em>(ie: RPM, Speed, Temperature, Fuel Usage, how long I have driven etc.)<\/em> It can also pinpoint my truck within a <strong>50 Foot radius.<\/strong> and if this unit should fail meaning if it experiences a power loss within aprox 10 minutes I will get a phone call from my company asking &#8220;what happened?&#8221; <em>(It did and I did)<\/em>. This unit uses <strong>Satellite Technology<\/strong> Not Cellular Communication. Satellite, You know those thingys that are flying around the Earth listening in on all of our phone calls and reading our E-Mails.<br \/>\nThe beauty of this thing is it costs about <strong>$150.00 per unit<\/strong> and a monthly monitoring fee by Qualcomm Corp.<br \/>\nNow with that being said, <strong>Why does the current Aircraft technology have &#8220;Transponders, or Communication Devices &#8221; that can be disabled by someone on board the aircraft?<\/strong> There should be a system that Cannot be disabled or accessed from anywhere inside the aircraft.<br \/>\nWhy is there a data system that can be defeated on board by either human or mechanical means? Why don&#8217;t aircraft have something as simple as a GPS transponder somewhere on board that Cannot be accessed from inside the aircraft?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m tired of the aircraft\/Airline people saying that <em>&#8220;It would cost Millions to outfit aircraft with &#8220;Real Time Data, or positive communication technology.<\/em> <strong>(Remember my little $150 unit)<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd one last question\/statement You mean to tell me that Someone on board did not have a <strong>Satellite Phone<\/strong>? My brother in Law whenever he travels abroad (<em>which is a lot<\/em>) Always takes a Sat Phone.<br \/>\nSo why can&#8217;t the Airline industry come up to date with the Heavily Mandated and Regulated Trucking Industry?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK Here&#8217;s my opinion on the whole Missing Plane thing. ( I know no one asked for it but here it is anyway) 1st. I do not think the Malaysian Officials are Hiding anything, I feel that they are In so far over their heads that they don&#8217;t know how to conduct this investigation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,20,27,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}