I would buy more from eBay if the shipping fees on many of the auctions wern't twice the price I can get the item for in the store. It seems many sellers use the shipping fees to pad their pockets a bot more.
$29.95 to ship a pencil. come on!
If the item plus shipping is within $10 or so then I will go to the store and buy it. I pay slightly more but I get the joy of instant gratification rather than waiting around three weeks for my item to arrive.
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"Just realize that 99.9% of the world doesn't give a crap about anything you do, and all that paranoia just slips away. That's what I did."
guess they finally woke up.
Some guy made these and did some "sky dives" with it. The site said he was going to put microjet engines on it. Red-Bull sponsored him I think.
Been there. Spatial disorientation is no fun. However, it's highly unlikely that all your primary and backup systems/instruments fail from the normal use of electronic equipment such as cell phones, laptops, mp3 players, etc.
Or is some of this article just plain dumb?
"will, in all likelihood, someday cause an accident by interfering with critical cockpit instruments such as GPS receivers."
If something interfers with the GPS receiver, it shouldn't be a big deal. When training for my pilots license, and a short time after, I didn't even have GPS and still got to my destination safely. If an airplane looses control because a GPS signal was lost, then it's the pilots' fault. They were just plain dumb and shouldn't have been flying anyway. Besides, there are several backups to the GPS including actually reading a chart (yes, I mean reading an actual piece of paper, getting on one of the two (or more) radios and talking to a controller, backup anaglog instruments, etc. If it interfers with the autopilot.. turn it off and actually FLY the plane! Even the fly by wire system has a hydrolic backup.
If you get lost (probably the most that can happen) because all of the above fails, then go to the back of the plane, grab one of the offending laptops, and log on to one of the many flight tracking sites to check where you are.
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Just unplug it.
I would buy more from eBay if the shipping fees on many of the auctions wern't twice the price I can get the item for in the store. It seems many sellers use the shipping fees to pad their pockets a bot more. $29.95 to ship a pencil. come on! If the item plus shipping is within $10 or so then I will go to the store and buy it. I pay slightly more but I get the joy of instant gratification rather than waiting around three weeks for my item to arrive. - "Just realize that 99.9% of the world doesn't give a crap about anything you do, and all that paranoia just slips away. That's what I did."
guess they finally woke up. Some guy made these and did some "sky dives" with it. The site said he was going to put microjet engines on it. Red-Bull sponsored him I think.
I can see it on my cell phone now... "New Partnership" Boeing 777 Passcode: 0000
Been there. Spatial disorientation is no fun. However, it's highly unlikely that all your primary and backup systems/instruments fail from the normal use of electronic equipment such as cell phones, laptops, mp3 players, etc.
Or is some of this article just plain dumb? "will, in all likelihood, someday cause an accident by interfering with critical cockpit instruments such as GPS receivers." If something interfers with the GPS receiver, it shouldn't be a big deal. When training for my pilots license, and a short time after, I didn't even have GPS and still got to my destination safely. If an airplane looses control because a GPS signal was lost, then it's the pilots' fault. They were just plain dumb and shouldn't have been flying anyway. Besides, there are several backups to the GPS including actually reading a chart (yes, I mean reading an actual piece of paper, getting on one of the two (or more) radios and talking to a controller, backup anaglog instruments, etc. If it interfers with the autopilot.. turn it off and actually FLY the plane! Even the fly by wire system has a hydrolic backup. If you get lost (probably the most that can happen) because all of the above fails, then go to the back of the plane, grab one of the offending laptops, and log on to one of the many flight tracking sites to check where you are.