YEAH! Study shows that cell phones interfere with aircraft instruments!

[thewayne]

Happy happy joy joy, indeed!

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06060/662669.stm

An airplane trip is perhaps the last refuge of reasonable quiet: if people have a genuine need to use a phone on an airplane, then they can probably afford to use the airphones. I've been very depressed when they started talking about making it possible for you to use your cell phone on them. I would have no problem not using my laptop on an airplane, I always have one or two books with me when I travel.


And if you're a glutton for punishment, here's the Slashdot thread: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/01/147231

EDIT: interesting. I started reading the Slashdot thread, and people started talking about certain models and technologies of cell phones causing interference in such a way that they know two seconds ahead of time if their cell phone is about to ring, it'll cause noise in speakers or interfere with tvs.

Comments

[donkey-hokey.livejournal.com]

Hooray :) The idea was depressing me, too.

[magic-rat.livejournal.com]

But if we can't use our cell phones in an airplane, then how will we know that terrorists have crashed a jet liner into the World Trade Center and that it's time to make a suicide rush at the hijackers? The possibility of cell phones to interfere with the ability to operate a modern jet liner is just one more thing that we have to sacrifice in the name of Homeland Security.

Oops, forgot to add the HTML tags to turn off any sarcasm filters. Hope that didn't cause any problems with the operations of the passenger jet if you happen to be flying while reading this.

[cardigirl.livejournal.com]

Well, hey-yell, maaan, whip out those cell phones when the terrorists make themselves known, and *crash* that damn airplane before they can get around to it!

/sarcasm

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

LOL! I like it!