03-26-2012, 04:39 PM | #76 |
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Does it really matter if you close your gadget for 5 minutes?
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03-26-2012, 05:19 PM | #77 |
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03-26-2012, 05:54 PM | #78 |
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Congratulations! By not reading the posts of the people on this thread who have repeatedly pointed out that the rules are applied not "at takeoff" but rather "whilst sitting for hours on the tarmac", you have managed to completely misconstrue people's legitimate concerns!
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03-26-2012, 05:59 PM | #79 |
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It might not matter if it was really only five minutes. The unfortunate reality is that it is all the time required to push back from the gate, taxi to the end of the take off line, and wait in that line until such time as the plane might take off. After that, it's five minutes before you can officially use the device. At the other end of the trip, it's more like ten to fifteen minutes for the plane to make its final descent and landing. All of that time added together can easily equal an hour or more. The point of having an e-ink reader is, in part, so that I don't have to carry a bunch of books around. It's frustrating that I have to bring something to fill that hour when I'm holding a device that sends a signal for less than half an inch and couldn't possibly cause any interference.
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03-26-2012, 06:39 PM | #80 |
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03-26-2012, 08:35 PM | #81 |
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I would take it, I have a Sony 350 and I always get told to turn mine off doesn't matter that it has no wifi or 3g.
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There have been several instances of electronic devices causing interference with aircraft systems. |
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This is the same sort of arguement used by those who text while driving. And how do you know that it only radiates 1/2"? I know of someone who has held a conversation across the Atlantic Ocean on about 0.00002 watts of power. |
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03-28-2012, 07:00 AM | #86 |
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If the interference is a real problem, why don't they build Faraday cages around the plane's cabin, to isolate the cabin completely from the plane's sensitive electronics?
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03-28-2012, 06:54 PM | #89 |
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Zetmolm, agreed. Because if the risk was real can you imagine how trivial it would be for terrorists to create EM noise in the 'sensitive' spectrum with modified hand-held devices? So I'm calling bogus on the risk myself.
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Re requests for evidence of harm, this controversial Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) article is frequently linked:
Unsafe At Any Airspeed? Cellphones and other electronics are more of a risk than you think Quote:
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One could say that telling people to stop eReading is pointless because a stowed Kindle may still be communicating by radio. Without question, some Kindle owners accidentally leave the wireless on when putting their device away. However, I also think that the current regulations reduce the amount of radio traffic in the cabin. A lot of things have to gone wrong at once to bring down an airliner. Suppose, shortly after the electronic device rules were rescinded, there was a crash in which one of the contributing factors was inconsistent instrument readings. There would be widespread speculation that passenger-held devices had something to do with it, and much more draconian rules than we now have could result. So I would go very slow in easing up on current rules. |
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