[Spridgets] Cell Phones in the air
Mark
mark at nashvilletn.org
Thu Oct 13 17:32:39 MDT 2011
The real problem using a cell phone in the air is the fact that it will
"talk" to so many cell towers that it can confuse the system on the ground.
Actually the FCC controls the use of a transmitter and they frown on using
any land based system while in the air. That being said, I used to carry a
ham radio on planes in the 70's and would ask and receive permission to
phone patch my wife to come pick me up at the airport. I could call her in
Atlanta from 30 thousand feet over Memphis and we would both get to the
airport at the same time. In more recent years I flew with a GPS connected
to a laptop map and one time had a co-pilot come back to see what I had, his
comment was that my system looked better than his. Those days are gone for
ever, too bad.
Scott is right that a cell phone won't effect the planes nav or com but
maybe 200 of them would.
Mark
Nashville
" I have, however, flown 250,000 miles (at least) having forgotten my phone
was powered up in my
backpack, and the plane has never so much as hiccuped. I tend to be
skeptical that a $200 million flying radio is going to be equipped with
anything that has any issues with a phone's cellular radio."
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