Research: Mobile Phones Disrupt Aircraft

threeturn writes "Another contribution to the ever-popular "mobiles on planes" topic. Every time this is discussed on /. lots of people say "there is no danger - its just the airlines trying to make a buck on their skyphones". Well, now the UK Civil Aviation Authority has done some research which shows mobiles on planes do disrupt safety systems and interfere with compass readings and other navigation equipment. Also reported by the BBC. So do us all a favour and switch your mobiles off next time you fly."

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Re:As an occasional airline passenger

[ckaminski]

No, because the life-cycles of consumer radio gadgets is measured in months and quarters and the life-cycle of avionics safety equipments has to be measured in decades. I'd stop short of asking aviation engineers to predict what future uses of the radio spectrum are going to impact the safe operation of their aircraft command and control systems, but dammit, they should be relatively robust in such environments. At least, they should fail in known ways, which would mandate continued testing of equipment with new consumer radio devices.

Re:As an occasional airline passenger

[rifter]

I'd like to see the pile of moderator crack it took to mod your thread redundant and offtopic. Damn moderator trolls!

(Mod up)

[pr0ntab]

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