03-29-2013, 01:43 PM | #31 | |
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03-29-2013, 03:46 PM | #32 |
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I keep my kindle PW in airplane mode because I don't want Amazon pushing updates to it and breaking the jailbreak. I may update it next week when I'll have access to the jailbreak files to reinstall things... or I may not.
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03-29-2013, 05:26 PM | #33 |
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I keep mine in airplane mode to save the battery. The only time I turn it on is to download books.
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04-01-2013, 12:44 AM | #34 |
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If a plane can be so sensitive to the emissions of a transmitting device (in a phone or ereader for example), wouldn't it be a fairly easy matter for the attendants to carry receivers to alert them to people with devices not in a non-transmitting mode?
We're all talking about these transmitters being more powerful than we understand, but doesn't that make it much simpler to detect and with detection rectify? I'm very happy to put my Kindle in non-transmitting mode at the drop of a hat if it makes flying safer - in fact I do at all times I'm using it during a flight. So I'm not fighting for my right to transmit at all. But if the problem is about whether you're transmitting or not rather than some other notion, wouldn't there be a reasonably simple way to detect that - especially in flight when the device is maximising the power of the transmitter? I'm not really a techy in this particular area, so I'm just looking at it from a logical perspective. Is it that hard to detect transmissions that could be powerful enough to interfere with crucial controls? |
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The board seriously needs a dead horse area where topics that have been beaten to death can be moved.
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04-01-2013, 04:19 PM | #36 | |
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Not sure how that is except for maybe some of the side discussions?? |
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The original was new news. How many posts before people were discussing how siily the rules were, whether there was cuse for concern or not, and the like?
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04-01-2013, 06:19 PM | #38 |
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I find many of the news posts become nothing more than platforms for some to express their opinions over and over and over and...........................................
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I sensed some real knowledge/experience posting in this thread towards the beginning so I'm hoping someone could satisfy my curiosity on this one.
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04-02-2013, 03:02 AM | #40 | |
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I'm sure that flight attendents have better things to do. A simple "turn off electronics for take-off and landing" makes a lot more sense. Is it really the end of the world if you can't read for 15 minutes?
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04-02-2013, 05:55 AM | #42 | |
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04-02-2013, 05:59 AM | #43 |
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Yes, I believe it would be hard for the attendant to do that. The interference not only depends on the radiated emmisions of the phone/reader, but also on the radiated suceptibility of the device or circuit being interupted. They can couple in weird ways that's not always intuitive, hence the rigorous design, test and certification required.
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What you've written makes no sense. They're wasting their time either way.
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04-02-2013, 06:10 PM | #45 | |
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It looks like they are really only concerned with the radio transmitter aspect so it would have been ideal if there was a way to easily detect it. I thought there must have been a reason why such a device wasn't already announced. |
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