Don't mean to bore anyone who saw this as well, but about a year ago there was an article in the Wall Street Journal about the origin of the ban on in-flight use of computers, cell-phones, etc.
Apparently several years ago on a transatlantic flight it, whenever some guy turned his laptop on and off it turned the plane's autopilot on and off. Kind of spooky, so they confiscated the laptop, got rid of the passengers, and flew back and forth across the Atlantic a few times to figure out the problem. Of course, the problem never recurred. And since then, no problems, ever. WSJ concluded that the science was bogus, and that cell phone use was probably safe. Anyway, there you have it. tmr -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of John M Stec Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 3:54 PM To: 'dano'; 'Raj Saxena' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [BAWUG] RE: Anyone heading to Germany next month? that was my point ... bogus regulations of the FAA, supported by bogus 'science' of the Airline Industry, results in this sort of thing, that is that RFI from cell phones and/or blackberries will cause problems with flight ops. In fact all recent tests done by FAA engineers failed to turn up any evidence of RFI induced problems, In sum ... There is NO evidence whatsoever that cell phones interfere with Airliner operation, but the Airlines maintain they 'might', but then show the airlines how to make money from the passengers for use of wireless and whoa ... concerns of RFI evaporate. how nice. -----Original Message----- From: dano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:26 PM To: Raj Saxena; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [BAWUG] RE: Anyone heading to Germany next month? Aviation frequencies (both voice and nav) are 118MHz to 135MHz. Afaik no civil air use anything above 136MHz. Tower freqs are usually 118-121MHz. At 10:26 AM -0800 on 1/17/03, Raj Saxena wrote: >As long as your Blackberry radio is off you can still use it. Cell >phones definetly a no no. But I don't know what aircraft >communications talk at 900,1800 or 1900? > >Anybody have any idea on what frequencies an airplane uses? I know that they >use the 130-175mhz to talk to towers. > >Raj -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
