Mike, I do not know if it is in the FCC rules or not, but your cell phone service provider may not take lightly such actions. Cell phones make use of line of site and low power to be a cell. Once you are up in the air, your phone can easily try to connect to every cell site in the state (and beyond). That means that you will tie up a large number of cell sites and possible cause interference to other users of the cell system. You may find your service provider turning off your cell service as a result. I am sure that some of the people who work for the manufactures of cell phones, who are on this list, can give a better idea as to how many cell sites you can tie up in the airplane.
Being a ham radio operator I have seen ham's use repeaters, while in airplanes, it can and does get in the way of emergency communications. Just my two cents.... Jim Jim Bacher, Senior Engineer Paxar - Monarch email:jim_bac...@monarch.com voice:1-937-865-2020 fax:1-937-865-2048 ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Subject: RE: Concrete as an insulator??? -- and now FCC/FAA Author: Mike Hopkins <mhopk...@keytek.com> List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org Date: 08/24/99 5:25 PM 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 mhopk...@keytek.com > -----Original Message----- > From: miksher...@aol.com [SMTP:miksher...@aol.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 11:13 AM > To: gmcintu...@packetengines.com; ed.pr...@cubic.com; emc-p...@ieee.org > Subject: Re: Concrete as an insulator??? > > > In a message dated 8/23/1999 5:05:26 PM Central Daylight Time, > gmcintu...@packetengines.com 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 majord...@ieee.org > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, > jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or > roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators). > --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators).
