[ltp] Re: Linux-Thinkpad digest, Vol 1 #632 - 27 msgs

[morpheus]

Yes I agree...and here is another good reason.  Do you really want to
sit on an airplane for several hours surrounded by 100 people screaming
into their cell phones?

I'm not saying we should be allowed to use cell phones on an airplane,
I'm just saying there's no danger to the airplane if we do.

-jr


On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 12:13, Ken Firestone wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, morpheus wrote:
> 
>    Just to put your mind at ease, I'm a pilot so I watch this issue
>    closely, of course.  Several studies have been done to see if electronic
>    devices, including cell phones, are a danger to aircraft.  All studies
>    have shown that there is no danger to modern aircraft.  There is a
>    theoretical possibility of interference to avionics menufactured before
>    the mid-1970s, when the standards for interference were upgraded.
> 
>    Your GPS, PDA, laptop and even 802.11, bluetooth and cell phones pose
>    absolutely no danger to an aircraft.  Airlines who frown on their use do
>    not do so for safety reasons.
> 
> There is however a good reason NOT to use a cell phone in a
> plane. From 30,000 feet how many hundreds of cells will you contact?
> And this could interfere with the network, especially if a number of
> people do it at once, and overload a bunch of cells.
> 
> 
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