Bill Owens wrote: > Several years ago, early 90's, I was working at a small airport and got to > know quite a few pilots on a first name basis. One of them once told me > that while on an instrument approach into PIT, someone turned on a cell > phone and really interfered with the ILS. Granted this was early 90's and > the aircraft involved was a Swearingen Metro commuter turbo prop. > > FWIW > > Bill > >
Note that a lot of cells back then were 3-watt handheld bricks, far more powerful than the current tiny wee units, and also analog, which has a far wider spectrum footprint than current digital tech. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
