It's so nice that they allow pacemakers "all the time"! I'd hate to think people would have to turn them off for flights...
Why the ban on AM/FM receivers? -Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas A. Frank" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 3, 2009 1:31:08 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPS from a window seat > saying angrily "using a GPS on a > plane is illegal". Nonsense...unless their own rules prohibit such use, in which case you are legally obliged to comply. There is no blanket (ie: government) rule against them. It is up to the airline; in the past year I've flown a number of different airlines. Some said in their in-flight magazine that GPS use was allowed, others said it wasn't, and some didn't say anything at all. For example, Southwest airlines specifically allows the use of GPS units: http://www.spiritmag.com/flightservices/flight-services.pdf US Airways implies they're OK, but is not explicit: http://www.usairwaysmag.com/inflight_information/passenger_information/ Either Jetblue or United prohibit GPS', but I cannot find anything on their websites (they are the other two airlines I've recently flown, so it's one of them where I saw the prohibition). No rhyme or reason to it at all. Tom Frank, KA2CDK (frequent flyer...and gadget user) _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
