[IP] DO CELL PHONES FLY WELL?

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 04:30:15 -0700
From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>

[Note:  This comment comes from reader Benn Kobb.  DLH]

At 3:53 AM -0700 6/21/03, buzz wrote:
> From: buzz <bkobb@ieee.org>
> To: dewayne@warpspeed.com
> Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] DO CELL PHONES FLY WELL?
> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 03:53:19 -0700
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>
> > The Federal Aviation Administration and the Air Transport Association 
> > have commissioned a new study to determine whether cell phones and other 
> > wireless communications devices on commercial flights do or do not 
> > interfere with navigational equipment.
>
> The UK equivalent of the FAA recently put out a news release about their 
> study that "proves" that airline passengers' mobile phones interfere with 
> the aircraft's equipment.
>
> Not a single person sat in a seat and made a phone call. The study 
> involved no passengers, no airline equipment, no phones...and no aircraft.
>
> Simulators were used instead of phones; a lab bench instead of an 
> airplane. They said that airline equipment wasn't available, was too big, 
> etc. so they used general aviation equipment. They blasted these avionics 
> from a horn antenna one foot away. No obstructions, such as people, or 
> those new titanium flight deck doors, were in the way.
>
> The only "specific risk" the study actually found was from phone use in 
> the flight deck. How many phone-using passengers do they fit in there?

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