Don Thompson

Long career in telecoms, aerospace & IT. Adept at troubleshooting & problem resolution.
Fascinated by the milieu. Pic: JFK 22L over the captain's shoulder

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

Working through an exit process, can be found at Blue Sky and in the fediverse.

[Oriana Pawlyk @Oriana0214]

The project was initially focused on just mixed air traffic, but now includes ADS-B data, “so we now feed it every day, real time, what the airplanes are doing… we can see unstabilized approaches… long landings that create intersection risk, and we can identify, is that an actual user, an airline, that has maybe a training issue, is it a runway design issue, is it a taxiway design issue…”

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@MikeLazowski117 @captsingh @KenR0415 And ‘GPS’ doesn’t function if the antenna(s) are immersed beyond a few cm.

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@stewak2 @Bullthe_Butcher @MCCCANM ✅ training is pretty much all they do, all the time. That’s a good thing.

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@Gabriel_Pogrund Congratulations, excellent news!

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@AliG7Entropy @CourierBoyUK @MarkSeddon1962 @Carol10306228 It was a ‘story’ fed to the WSJ by anonymous Pentagon officials.
Probably anonymous officials related to John Barron.

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@thebaldgeek Is there anyone else in your locality transmitting WSPR or FT8? The WSPR database is freely available to interrogate, FT8 & other beacon modes must be similar. Locations expressed as maidenhead codes, 6 or 8 characters.

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@RhondaGarad @Progress_Mich ‘claims from unnamed US officials first made by Reuters’
Claim first made by WSJ, via its reporter Shelby Holliday.

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@Scaramucci Ackally, the most important point is the identities of the 2 alleged Pentagon/otherwise US officials who called a WSJ reporter with the ‘story’.
Even a freakin’ Iranian news agency cited the WSJ & the IRGC press releases made no mention of the launches.
Per chance, John Barron?

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@spectatorindex According to two anonymous ‘Pentagon’ sources who called up a WSJ reporter based in NY. Perhaps the anonymous sources were John Melanie Barron?

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@DefenceGeek @MATA_osint Wouldn’t agreement for overflights be a political rather than military decision?

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@thenewarea51 @LabratSR The media has been consistent, over the past twelve years, in attaching a pic of anything with any MAS livery to their MH370 stories: 747s (long retired), 737s, A330s, A350s…

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@moyensdebord @Turbinetraveler Vance contradicts not only evidence assessed by hands-on inspection by ATSB but TSB-CA’s own evidence the SR111 crash. He’s an unreliable broker.

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@DominickGDonald @johnkonrad Actually, it’s MI5 (UK domestic security/CI) that is located across the Thames from IMO HQ.
The Lloyd’s building is in the City of London, 4.5km away.
London’s a capital city, everything’s close to everything else.
Proximity is a specious argument.

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@IAmSagzee @Matt_Bracken48 Precious few US registered vessels. That’s actually one of present US admin’s many gripes, US has little to no ocean going merchant fleet.
Aside from that, descriptions of the Strait of Hormuz give impression vessels can be easily protected in convoy: that is really not so.

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@LaurentLadouce @ManvBrain @americanpetunia @LabratSR @carndadogz The fiction is strong in the Richard & Geoffrey boondoogle.
A78-08 was to conduct the search a yr ago. Nope, it was A78-06 (obvious frm May 24)
A86-06 carried ROVs. Nope, chill units for extended voyage.
WSPR can detect a/c over oceanic distances. Nope, pure hoax.
& on, & on.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Look at these numbers. AI summaries are fuelling a news holocaust.

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@LabratSR @americanpetunia @carndadogz @ManvBrain @VesselFinder Seafloor survey for oil, gas, and renewable energy projects is OI’s day-to-day, routine business.
Randomly associating Armada vessels with any/every past site of seafloor significance says more about the quest for relevance by those voicing such nonsense than anything else.

[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@LabratSR @americanpetunia @carndadogz @ManvBrain @VesselFinder There is no basis in fact for the idea being seeded by certain YouTube content creators that A86-01 is headed for the AF447 debris field site.
Recently, in late 2025, Brazil agreed leases for oil/gas field development offshore Ceará & adjacent northern provinces.
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[Don Thompson @GuardedDon]

@Aviation_Movies @thenewarea51 +1

[K S Narendran @NarendranKs]

What is up with Ocean Infinity' s search for MH370? Things have gone silent. My post-
https://t.co/gpnW6yWi1L