Re: [NTLK] OT: portable cd player

From: Thomas Cherry (jceaser_at_mac.com)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 13:51:26 EDT


I was mad when they told me to turn off my Newton but then forgot to turn
off the overhead TV monitors. We landed with them on, and if a TV doesn't
put out enough EM noise to crash the plane, I don't know what will.

on 4/9/02 1:45 PM, Jim Anderson at jiman_at_microsoft.com wrote:

> Most commercial aircraft have antennas scattered over the hull
> in (seemingly) random places, with cables running from them up into the
> cockpit. Some of these antenna are used for things like guiding the
> plane to the runway in solid instrument conditions. If someone switched
> on something that put out a bunch of EM noise, it could throw off this
> stuff at a critical time.
> That said, I doubt if anything like a Newton could do this. I
> remember reading some specific cases where some badly shielded consumer
> device messed up some badly wired and shielded instruments, but the
> circumstances were odd. In any case, it's easier (and safer) for the
> airline to just tell everyone to turn everything off during takeoff and
> landing.

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