If I'm not mistaken, there IS an FAA regulation prohibiting the use of cell phones in airplanes -- I have the regs at home and will look it up.
Mike Hopkins [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 11:13 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Concrete as an insulator??? > > > In a message dated 8/23/1999 5:05:26 PM Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > << Does anybody know why the FCC - not the FAA has regulations > against using a cell phone in a private airplane. It is a little more > obvious for a commercial airplane that use the fuselage as a return path > from various equipment bays but private plans aren't wire that way - I > don't > think. > There was a comment made that it interferes with the Cell system in some > manner, any clues? >> > > Stated reason I've always heard, and which makes sense to me: one triggers > > multiple cells once one is airborne, which messes up a system that is > designed to hand off a call cell to cell, based on signal strength and an > assumption that the phone is on the ground. > > Mike Sherman > FSI International > > --------- > This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. > To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], or > [email protected] (the list administrators). > --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
