At 09:47 PM 3/16/00 -0600, Gary Edwards wrote:
>Sam, never heard of any problems shooting onboard airliners at any time - I've
>done it often. The bunk about no electronic devices below 10,000 ft is exactly
>that, bunk. Only problems ever documented were from FM radio recievers, whose
>intermediate frequency is close enough to navigation frequencies to conceivably
>cause some interference. Cell phones are prohibited for a different reason
>entirely - cell switching logic can only accomodate on-ground transmissions. I
>chuckle each time the flight attendants announce that the devices are
>prohibited
>until the captain taxies to the gate. If he needs his VOR navigation radio set
>to find the terminal, he has bigger problems.
For those of you who are fans of the U.S. television show "The West Wing" (I
know *I* am!), the premiere episode had a humourous exchange between a flight
attendant and the White House Communications Director while preparing for
landing in Washington, D.C., the spirit of which, as I recall, went something
like this:
Flight Attendant: "I'm sorry, sir, but you can't use your cell phone while in
this aircraft."
Communications Director: "This is an MD-11 aircraft; it rolled off the line 20
months ago. It contains an AV-5 avionics package including an advanced
navigation system. Are you actually trying to tell me I can flummox this thing
with something I bought at Radio Shack?"
Flight Attendant: "I'm *sorry,* sir, but you can't use your cell phone while in
this aircraft. It interferes with our navigational equipment."
Communications Director: "You realize how stupid you sound when you say that,
don't you?"
Loved that exchange. ;-)
Garth
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