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04-02-2013, 06:26 PM | #47 | |
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I'm guessing that the radio transmitter, and perhaps receivers, are the only aspects that they are worried about. Electronics do tend to spit out a lot of radio noise, even if they don't have a radio transmitter, but that should be relatively low power (especially for portable devices). Again, I'm not an expert in this field so I cannot be certain, but I do have a background in physics. If you are interested in this sort of thing, you can get an introduction to how electricity and the electromagnetic spectrum works by looking at a grade 12 physics textbook. There is also a lot of accessible materials produced for radio amateurs which will give you a grounding in what's happening. |
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I just figured if there is a general move to start allowing some of this stuff and the main concern is safety from consumer radio transmissions and there are other concerns about people (passengers and attendants) not really understanding what is transmitting and what isn't that there might be a way of making the whole thing a bit easier to manage. But it's never as simple as we'd like I guess. |
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Tonight I am flying to Dublin and I will definitely taking my kindle with me and switch it on!
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Thanks for posting this link. Hopefully the revamp will actually come to fruition.
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That said, takeoff and landing are critical times, and it's worthwhile to extend the concept of the "sterile cockpit" to include chance interference from the cabin, remote though it may be. But I can still be cynical about it. Regardless, you won't eliminate all interference, caused mostly from well meaning but dopey folks like myself who stow their phones and sometimes forget to turn it off though, as oppose to from anarchistic rebels. what you will do is reduce the interference from folks who have no idea what an airplane mode is. |
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I heard a funny story (that may be apocryphal since I'm not sure the technology is in place for it) about a pilot announcing, before pushback, that someone still had a cellphone on and that they wouldn't leave until it was turned off. After several announcements and much double checking by passengers, he announced sheepishly that he had found the culprit phone, and it was his. I recall in the 60s and 70s there was a big to do about using FM receivers in aircraft because they caused interference with the navigation. Heck, i remember them using it in one of those mystery movie specials where it was used by villain as an attempt to kill some David Cassidy-esque pop star by having his plane lost crossing the Atlantic. |
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