Neither of these organizations had any proof that the supposed interference would occur, but they said they didn't have any proof that it wouldn't occur so they continued the ban. Making matters even more ridiculous, many airlines are now offering in-flight wi-fi service (for a price of course). But the cell phone ban continues.
Well guess what? There are 139 other countries whose airlines allow cell phone use. And after over 7 million calls, there hasn't been a single problem. No plane has crashed or gotten off course because of cell phone use. It looks like the FCC and FAA have just been lying to us, or they just don't want to do their homework. Either way, things need to change.
The the old RF signal (800mhz) used by older devices can cause the airplanes navigation systems to show wrong values, this however is quite unlikely as planes and especially navigation systems are build with heavy protections against these types of interferences.
ReplyDeleteThis has however been proven possible when mythbusters took whole plane apart from the safety mechanics and used old phones and sure enough the navigation systems showed completely flawed values.
But as said, planes have so much protection on them that its pretty much impossible for these devices to actually have an effect on the planes systems.