Isn't the 'turn your cell-phones off' while flying an FCC thing and not
an FAA thing?
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> I can't tell you the number of times that either my co-pilot
> (wife) or I have left our cell-phones active (live / on)
> while flying. They did not interfere with the Comm
> frequencies or the GPS navigational system nor the ground
> based nav systems (VOR/VORTAC, DME, Localizer, or ILS), or
> the transponder.
You're not superstitious enough.
> Now the big iron pilots have Comm radios that operate on a
> higher freq set than our plane operates on (108-134? MHz
> compared to 4xx(?)MHz).
Actually, commercial airliners use the same VHF nav/comm band as
general
aviation for air traffic control and navigation purposes. The
military
uses the UHF nav/comm band.
-jc-
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