In message <[email protected]>, "Dav e Baxter" writes:
>Tests were done a few years ago at London Gatwick, LGW (on the ground) >to see what impact (if any) the use of a cellphone had when used inside >a commercial pasenger aircraft. I think the only documented effect so far, that have shown an actual capacity for instrument misreadings or mal-function, is interference with DME signals by really old or defective GSM phones in the 900MHz band. Since the coupling is via the planes DME antenna, there is very little mitigation possible. Given that most passengers are not willing to let the airlines take a "it probably works" attitude to the flight hardware, I think it is reasonably fair that the airlines ask passengers to do their bit. Personally, I find flying objectionable enough as it is, and I certainly do not forsee passengers yelling into cell-phones improving the experience. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
