{"id":11150,"date":"2014-03-20T23:59:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T06:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=11150"},"modified":"2015-10-31T21:11:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T01:11:19","slug":"flight-simulator-was-a-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/flight-simulator-was-a-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"flight simulator was a PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11151\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/flight-simulator-was-a-pc\/2563978_orig\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2563978_orig.jpg?fit=1066%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1066,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2563978_orig\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2563978_orig.jpg?fit=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2563978_orig.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2563978_orig.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2563978_orig\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2563978_orig.jpg?w=1066&amp;ssl=1 1066w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2563978_orig.jpg?resize=125%2C94&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2563978_orig.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For all the tragedy surrounding Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 the one thing no one has bothered to mention is how the flight simulator was obviously a PC, and the pilot clearly an accomplished modder and builder. When the flight simulator surfaced the knee-jerk reaction was &#8216;terrorist simulator&#8217; but it was pretty clear no one would go to such lengths to gain employment, have a family, build a simulator, to hijack a plane. The simulator is a sophisticated multi-channel rig with what looks like multiple PC towers (one appears to be Lian-Li) and control mechanisms &#8211; frankly the kind of thing you can only assemble with a PC these days, likely Windows. Captain was clearly a family man with no ill-intent, and put a lot of love into his technology.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vi8DIaqBnW4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the tragedy surrounding Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 the one thing no one has bothered to mention is how the flight simulator was obviously a PC, and the pilot clearly an accomplished modder and builder. When the flight simulator surfaced the knee-jerk reaction was &#8216;terrorist simulator&#8217; but it was pretty clear no one would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-11150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geekathon"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2563978_orig.jpg?fit=1066%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-2TQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11150"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15226,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150\/revisions\/15226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11150"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}