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:OMG

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL for the moderators who think he's talking about morrowind/nonsense, check out Elder Scroll Travels on Sprint Vision, it's by Bethesda too, very cool...

Re:Bone-O-Rama

[Anonymous Coward]

props to the first post... what tool?

Re:OMG

[Echnin]

I went to the trouble of going to the Bethesda Softworks site, finding out it's a piece of shit which doesn't work in Opera, and spending 5 minutes waiting for it to load in MSIE to verify this. Yes, it's true. Check it at http://www.bethsoft.com

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Experience the fun and excitement of this legendary franchise in the palm of your hand, complete with epic dungeons, fearsome monsters, and priceless treasures. Played in first-person perspective, this epic single-player game is presented with stunning graphics. As in the genre-defining worlds found in Morrowind, Daggerfall®, and Arenaâ, The Elder Scrolls Travels will be the definitive wireless RPG"

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I was just going to mod the original poster up, but when I went through all that trouble... Bleh.

As for the article: DUH. Sheesh. :P

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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