[OM2009] airplane mode

[Richard Kralovic]

> window seat makes no difference : )
> in fact for several minuets i was holding my freerunner against the
> window and got nothing...

I used gps on my freerunner successfully on several flights :-). I just
pushed FR against the window and got a fix within few minutes.
Afterwards, everything worked nicely.

I am using an old FSO milestone 5 build; to enable "airplane mode" there
it is sufficient to close zhone ;-).

Greets
	Richard

> 
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Jakob <jackramone at googlemail.com
> <mailto:jackramone at googlemail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:26 PM, jeremy
>     jozwik<jerjoz.forums at gmail.com <mailto:jerjoz.forums at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > you might be allowed to. but i have yet to actually get a gps lock
>     after
>     > leaving the terminal. so whats the point?
>     > i tried on several occasions to get it to work. even with a lock
>     in the
>     > terminal, after sitting in the plane waiting to taxi i loose the
>     signal
> 
>     I tried to track a flight once, too. The problem is probably that
>     airplanes are a faraday cage as they're usually made of some kind of
>     metal. I didn't have a window seat to test if one has a signal there.
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