[time-nuts] GPS from a window seat Gone off topic

Robert Atkinson robert8rpi at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Oct 5 21:15:25 UTC 2009


Hi Mike,
I'm sorry but " Your life probably isn't worth that
cell phone call or PC application.  And I am certain
that it isn't worth mine." Does not wash, witness the number of people who make cell calls while driving.
 
Furthermore Radioactive and magnetic materials have been banned for years. People who should now better still put hazardus items on aircraft. Witness ValuJet flight 592. It's normally about money.
 
Robert G8RPI.
EASA licenced aircraft engineer, Senior Avionics Designer, MRAeS.
 

--- On Mon, 5/10/09, Mike Naruta AA8K <aa8k at comcast.net> wrote:


From: Mike Naruta AA8K <aa8k at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPS from a window seat
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com>
Date: Monday, 5 October, 2009, 9:13 PM



I can only draw on my experience in the past as
an avionics technician and Private PIC.


How about a different perspective on this?

Imagine that I bring aboard a "box of rocks" for
my entertainment.  It may be magnetic, radioactive,
or some such.  Now, these "rocks" could theoretically
influence the aircraft's navigation or communications
systems, but it "probably" won't, and no one has
been able to prove it ever caused an incident yet.

Now imagine that the majority of the passengers
are also unwilling to sit still for the duration
of the flight and have each brought their own boxes
of rocks to entertain themselves.

There should be no reason to be concerned, right?
You bet your life.


Why would you operate any device that might cause
a problem?  Your life probably isn't worth that
cell phone call or PC application.  And I am certain
that it isn't worth mine.



Chris Kuethe wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Robert Atkinson <robert8rpi at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi
>> There is of course a non technical, non EMC reason for such a ban. Security. It might

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