salinity and the sound walls on which to bounce the signals. and hopefully we have a shot because if the amplitude is strong we should be close to it. you know, jim, we are still awaiting the information from the bluefin s first full mission after some setbacks. does it seem that the bluefin is capable of doing the job now? oh, i think there is no question of whether or not it is capable. and the reading, what it is doing, giving itself enough time to analyze it properly and exercise a lot of patients. arthur rosenberg, they are searching in an area that has a tremendous amount of ocean trash. i mean, could we see a similar dynamic that we saw in the aerial search? possible leads, possible debris detect detected that turns out to be just trash? i mean, do we need to be cautious? we have to delineate what is going on top of the water?
really don t know the answer to. and you know, it is so perplexing. huge areas of the ocean have been searched. but it is not like land where if something comes to rest it will stay there. you know, you could search an area and there is nothing there. but then the current could bring something there. something could rise up from below. it is a moving target. you know, if you re really looking for closure it is so frustrating, i m sure. yeah, absolutely, jim, you were you surprised by the technical nature of many of the questions these families had for authorities? not a bit. i have to tell you, i have great respect for these families and for their decorum. and the fact that they have held up as well as they have. and i have a great deal of confidence that they re thinking through this entire affair. they have done tremendous research on their own. as mary has said, they re going to become experts before this thing is over. paul, should these families expect to receive an answer o
tweets. david soucie, nick murphy says what is the purpose of flying this plane through several course changes until it ran out of fuel? if i knew that i would know a lot more than i know now. i can t imagine a purpose. i did come up with something recently. we started thinking about what is the purpose of flying around that channel? what if it was to avoid a populated area. we went tightright to the nefarious intent. but to go to the maintenance base coming around there, and realize there was a problem. he may have been trying to avoid land. interesting, jim tilmon, this is from jerry, jerry says is it possible to shut off one engine to save fuel and maintain altitude?
one submersible down to where they had got the pings and they got louder and softer again. they were thinking they were literally on top of it. it clearly signaled they thought they had it and rather than mapping the whole area around it, they were going to zero in right on the best spot that they thought. so maybe they were just a little overly optimistic and thought they would go down and be on top of it. but who isn t? who doesn t want to find it right away. so you know, reality might be setting in. i wonder if it s going to change things now that they possibly may have spotted some debris there. jim tilmon, you have been a proponent for the visual search. are you disappointed that they will be tapering that off
nefarious ones as well. it s a mystery without a final page. i want to go the jim tilmon. we talked about this at the beginning. do pilots keep their cell phones on in the cockpit or ever use them in the cockpit. i would think, yes. the answer to that is yes, particularly sitting at the gate on the ground when they re not involved in any other part of the flight operation. but once the doors are shut and that sort of thing, the pilots that i know stow that found away and it stays there until such time as they are back on the ground and chalked again. it s not a common thing to have a cell phone conversation from the cockpit of an airplane in flight. jeff wise, a similar question i asked brett larson. i have heard up to 30% of cell