Added the PSR at Western Hill, and also added Pulau Perak Island.
As some on twitter seem to be a bit confused by "Auz-speak"
(a) the "power outage" reference - is sarcasm. Pulau Perak is an Island. It is an "outpost" with it's own power etc. Radar location 5.683335°N 98.938758°E
(b) the "passing strange" reference is also sarcasm, since MH-370 is represented to have passed the island just a little to the south.
© the "reason" for both sarcastic comments is the slide TITLE itself, which was clearly labeled to mislead. The radar on the island is a sea srface search radar, not an air search radar.
A "problem" that I have been wrestling with is the issue of the "Penang Turn", analysis of which pivots (literally) on the radar data.
All Malaysian information says "range at bearing from Butterworth at time X".
The problem is, credibly, the raw radar data can only be "range at bearing from Western Hill at time X".
Now it is a simple fact that the two locations are not terribly far apart, but both are north of the "south of Penang turn", at nearly the same latitude, but Western Hill is West of Butterworth.
When you consider the geometry of the turn, i.e. the effective radius distances of the aircraft at any instant from both sites, during the turn, you end up with an anomoly.
As I mentioned in a post a few days ago, you get "a kink" in the track at the end of the north west turn, before jinking left again onto a steady heading og 290.
This "overshoot" in heading by SIX DEGREES can be seen in the DSTG graph (marked up in a post that follows).
If the aircraft was on autopilot, that would not happen.
If the aircraft was being hand flown by someone who knew what he was doing, it would not happen.
So, it makes me wonder, has the data been "manipulated", and if so, "why", "to what end " ?
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As some on twitter seem to be a bit confused by "Auz-speak"
(a) the "power outage" reference - is sarcasm. Pulau Perak is an Island. It is an "outpost" with it's own power etc. Radar location 5.683335°N 98.938758°E
(b) the "passing strange" reference is also sarcasm, since MH-370 is represented to have passed the island just a little to the south.
© the "reason" for both sarcastic comments is the slide TITLE itself, which was clearly labeled to mislead. The radar on the island is a sea srface search radar, not an air search radar.
A "problem" that I have been wrestling with is the issue of the "Penang Turn", analysis of which pivots (literally) on the radar data.
All Malaysian information says "range at bearing from Butterworth at time X".
The problem is, credibly, the raw radar data can only be "range at bearing from Western Hill at time X".
Now it is a simple fact that the two locations are not terribly far apart, but both are north of the "south of Penang turn", at nearly the same latitude, but Western Hill is West of Butterworth.
When you consider the geometry of the turn, i.e. the effective radius distances of the aircraft at any instant from both sites, during the turn, you end up with an anomoly.
As I mentioned in a post a few days ago, you get "a kink" in the track at the end of the north west turn, before jinking left again onto a steady heading og 290.
This "overshoot" in heading by SIX DEGREES can be seen in the DSTG graph (marked up in a post that follows).
If the aircraft was on autopilot, that would not happen.
If the aircraft was being hand flown by someone who knew what he was doing, it would not happen.
So, it makes me wonder, has the data been "manipulated", and if so, "why", "to what end " ?
