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The entire search is dependent on where the TRUE FMT is.

The only evidence for the "official" FMT north of Ache is derived from the MY Malacca Strait Track.  The only evidence for that is the Lido radar slide.

The "actual" FMT could be anywhere along a section of the 18:27 utc arc over four hundred nautical miles long, from north of Ache to west of Sibolga City. (approx 8 deg N to 1.6 deg N)

The DSTG, in going for the northern FMT, is at pains to point out (i.e. = cover their arses), that the radar data they are using, is NOT raw radar data at all, but is in fact, only a table of 10sec/lat/lon/alt given to them by Malaysia.

The DSTG did not, and apparently will not, publish this table.

Why not ?

SECRET ?

Come on.

We are being fed garbage on top of garbage.

The DSTG Report is nothing more than justification of the existing search strategy.  It contains "nothing new", and is thus, useless.

Reconsider this:-
A "southern" FMT, pretty close to the most southern limit possible.
http://auntypru.com/forum/-Less-Noise-an...544#pid544






Thus, there is a "range" of possible positions, over 400 miles long, along the 18:27 utc arc, that MH-370 "could have been", when it crossed that arc.

Perhaps Capt Simon Hardy (and others) could re-run their mathematical models, at say 10nm intervals down this section of the 18:27 utc arc, to the 22:41 utc arc, (as the baseline) and then project onwards to see where they end up on the 00:11 utc and 00:19 utc arcs.

I suggest using the 18:27 utc and 22:41 utc arcs as the "baselines" for calculations, specifically, because I still have my doubts about the accuracy of the 00:11 utc and 00:19 utc arcs, due to "dawn ionospheric issues" with "L" Band signals.  The earlier arcs, should be "good".