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

[morpheus]

Of course, a cell phone left on on the flight deck will cause an
annoying buzzing in the pilot's headphones...but you'd have to be a
pretty bad pilot to crash the plane because of that!

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 23:29, James McKenzie wrote:
> Brian:
> 
> Unfortunately, no.  This was a while back, just after the Palm Pilot was 
> introduced to the market.  They are not the only 'inoccuous" device that 
> has caused interference.  When I used to fly internationally during the 
> 90s, the airline I flew on banned the use of wireless mice as well as 
> WalkmanFM units.  This, of course, could be an "Urban Legend" but I 
> could not find it at www.urbanlegends.com.  Even the use of two-way 
> pagers is prohibited, and they use a completely different band than any 
> of the radio gear onboard an aircraft.
> 
> James McKenzie
> 
> Brian Beattie wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 22:58, James McKenzie wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Ken and Morpheus:
> >>
> >>There is a documented occurance when an Delta pilot was wondering what 
> >>happened to his autopilot. 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Can you supply us with this documentation?
> >
> >  
> >