More info on airplane use (was RE: Current bugbears)

John Seghers jseghers at cequint.com
Tue Sep 4 20:53:06 CEST 2007


There are two primary areas of concern for phone use on planes, and both of
them have demonstrable effects:
1) The potential of interference with onboard avionics, particularly those
designed before 1984.
2) The effect an airborne phone can have on ground systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_on_aircraft

And yes, newer planes and avionics systems are being designed to deal with
this, but there's a lot of older iron flying worldwide.

- John
PP-ASMEL-IA




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