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Electronics & Planes Don't Mix?

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 15, 2003 @01:30AM from the what's-the-real-effect dept.

dirtydamo writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is running an interesting story on the old debate on whether electronic devices cause problems on planes. It appears pilots are pretty much accustomed to handling weird problems with equipment, which they attribute to passengers' portable devices. More research is needed to determine whether or not this is the actual problem, but the article certainly makes me a little uneasy about modern air travel."

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Re:I'm a pilot by ddimas · 2003-09-15 03:03 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Cellular signals are not based on magnetism.
Congratulations, you flunked Physics.
Show me a paper and not anecdotal information on an anecdotal article. I have charts showing spurious peaks due to RF interference. I also have a sensitive detector for RF interference, I call it a radio...