>RT wrote:

>> "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.
>>
>>

>
>I'm inclined to agree that the inconsitent requirements regarding mobile
>phones on the ground are silly, and some, such as the requirement not to
>use them while refuelling seem to be based on little more than stories
>that are like as not either totally apocryphal, or represent events that
>have been misinterpreted.
>
>However, in an aircraft there is a clear distinction between the
>aircraft's own computer systems and other electronics, and those in use
>by the passengers. The aircraft's systems have been tested together, and
>are know to work. The passengers' electronics are an unknown variable.