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Trail Nix
Senior Member
40 posts, Nov 2002
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posted 05-01-2003 08:17 AM
Hi all,Someone more studied on this issue than I am told me recently that technology exists to initiate the dispersal of substances from control areas not in the cockpit and without knowledge of pilots. He was pretty confident because he knew someone who knew this... We know about smart dust and iris scanning and identix and the terrible technology of combat, so is it such a huge leap to think that the pilots really may not know. Comments? Trail Nix 
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emfx13
Moderator

Hayward Ca.U.S.A. 801 posts, May 2002
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posted 05-01-2003 10:08 AM
mE Am ThInKiNg PiLoTS BE kNoWinG. 
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Trail Nix
Senior Member
40 posts, Nov 2002
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posted 05-01-2003 03:54 PM
He actually said that the controls to the accessory tanks were NOT in the cockpit. TN
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Lulu
ice behaving badly
right here 2553 posts, Dec 2000
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posted 05-01-2003 04:08 PM
Ok, I'll bite, where are the controls located then?
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Jeanie
Senior Member
North East U.S.A. 551 posts, Nov 2001
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posted 05-01-2003 04:09 PM
mE aM tHinKinG mE aGreeS wItH eMFx. It wouldn't take a Philadelphia lawyer to figure out whats going on. I'm on the good earth most of the time and I got it down pat. May I add thanks to many who post on this site and a special thanks to Mr. Carnicom as well as Nick Beglich.Left to my own devices I'd probably still be living in a cave.
[Edited 2 times, lastly by Jeanie on 05-01-2003] 
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Shadow
Senior Member

Orange County, CA, USA 39 posts, Mar 2003
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posted 05-01-2003 04:22 PM
What TN heard could be correct in that the dispersal could be triggered by computer w/GPS grids programmed in prior to flt.But, again, something bothers me about that setting because...... What I observe here on the coast of CA, are the a/c beginning to turn around, (sometimes the spraying doesn't stop before the turn begins), the a/c stops the 'spraying', then begins again as it flys alongside same area as before or crosses over same making the X patterns. The pilots would have to be aware that their a/c and the other one flying with them, or in some cases from the opposite direction, are laying those 'trails' they see after they've turned around. Non? Shadow 
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Trail Nix
Senior Member
40 posts, Nov 2002
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posted 05-02-2003 07:29 AM
I cannot recall if he did say where the controls were, but said they were operated through the GSP system. His friend works/worked at a high level with some space navigational and research technologies. As to pilot input into the dispersal process, I don't know enough to comment.
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