> "Stealth Pilot" aeroplanes.com.au> wrote in message
> news:n7l4c41mguerg0a4qo6g9dobq7abvf0g6d@4ax.com...

>> On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:45:54 +1000, Sylvia Else
>> wrote:
>>
>>

>>> 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.
>>>

>> 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.

>
> Perzackery, Stealth. Lots of this stuff is just not logical. Turn off
> mobile fones at the servo. Yeah, right. I chuck an audible, visible spark
> about 7 mm when I get out of the car - and I'm supposed to worry about a
> mobile phone? Erm - in spite of the several hundred amps the starter
> motors use through arcing commutators every time the vehicles start there.
> At hospital in the emergency department everyone and their dog are on their
> mobiles - Drs, Ambos etc - no problemo while ECGs and other electonic aids
> are in use. At the Drs surgery the nurse insists I turn my mobile off so
> she can do a computerised ECG! She obviously has no clue as to the level
> of electronic noise emitted by a PC - which is exactly the same level of
> electronic noise emitted by assorted confusers buried in the systems of
> modern a/c.
>
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