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Group: aus.aviation · Group Profile
Author: Sylvia ElseSylvia Else Date: Sep 6, 2008 03:20
Stealth Pilot wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:45:54 +1000, Sylvia Else
> wrote:
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>> Of course, it doesn't help when the government implements rules
>> prohibiting nail files and toothpicks in the cabin, because such absurd
>> rules taint others by association.
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> of course. and if aeroplanes have such simple problems to fix why
> arent they fixed in the designs?.
> it cant be too damn difficult to make the passenger compartment a
> faraday cage and put the avionics outside of it.
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> Stealth Pilot
High frequence signals are not so easy to screen, even with a faraday
cage, and on the face of it, it shouldn't be necessary. After all,
modern aircraft have multiple computers of their own, which manage not
to interfere with each other or with navigational instruments, and they
tend to be closer together.
Nevertheless, there have been reports of effects, and at least some have
been moderately well verified by turning the alleged offending device
off and on again. On the other hand it appears to be true that none of
these effects has been reproducible on the ground.
But even if all one's left with is an air of unease about possible
interference, turning laptops and other passenger equipment off during
critical phases of the flight seems like a sensible, and hardly onerous,
precaution.
The passengers shouldn't mind anyway - they're meant to be watching the
progess of the approach and landing out of the window ;)
Sylvia.
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