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Old 03-13-2014, 01:39 PM   #437
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Originally Posted by Manic! View Post
But nothing was transmitting GPS data from the plane. It somthing was we would know where the plane is. I still have know idea why a piliot is able to turn off the transponder.
I realize this, but the plane is not designed to ever have that transmitter turned off. If that is not supposed to be able to be turned off, there is no reason to believe why the ones from the engine wouldn't also be able to be turned off.

It doesn't actually fix anything to just add more transmitters if they can be turned off, and if they are going to be added and not able to be turned off, why not skip adding them and just make the main transmitter unable to be disabled?

Either way it doesn't fix anything to simply add more transmitters...

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