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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie
Aircraft electronics are also pathetically behind the curve. I don't have to turn my phone off every time I get into a car for fear of the whole thing going up in flames.
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Neither will the airplane, but no-one is willing to sign the dotted line beneath the approval of their use ...
Airplanes have to take far more V/m from radar installations than your puny phone can pump out.
Can't use you iPad on take-off and landing ?
Fat chance the blokes up front have their departure and arrival charts on their airline-provided iPads ...
The USAF just bought some 18 thousand of them.
They'll replace one hell of a lot of paper.
Same in hospitals.
You'll see the doctors running about with cellphones.
Have you ever seen somebody with a pacemaker die because he sat in front of you on the train, the bus, or just walked by you ?