Re: presentation-prep as safety hazard

[Henning Schulzrinne]

IEEE Spectrum, Sept. 1996 has a fairly comprehensive discussion of this
topic.

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/spectrum/sep96/features/air1.html

Accessible on-line to IEEE members only, I believe, but available in any
technical library.

Ken Hornstein wrote:
> 
> >I expect we will see some lessening of the rules as the experience
> >and turnover of the airframes proceeds.  We already have the
> >"mobile use okay until pushback" which is a real change.
> 
> That's not universal; it's up the individual carrier.
> 
> (While I agree there is no hard evidence that computers affect plane
> systems, when you're dealing with an airplane, isn't it better to be
> safe than sorry?  They are only asking you to turn it off for a
> relatively short amount of time).
> 
> --Ken
> 
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