• Airlines told to replace cockpit kit
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[quote]The US air safety regulator said that tests had indicated that mobile phone and computer signals could cause the screens to go blank.[/quote] What kind of shitty screens get blank by mobile phone and computer signals ? WTF ? I know headphones and speakers can get funky, but screens ?
[QUOTE=AntonioR;46123133]What kind of shitty screens get blank by mobile phone and computer signals ? WTF ? I know headphones and speakers can get funky, but screens ?[/QUOTE] Ones with shitty RF shielding, that's what.
i don't get how they can even make screens and stuff that is so sensative to RF that cellphones can cook them when just flying over any major city or cell tower on takeoff/landing will give you about (10^3)x more microwave radiation as those transmitters can actually cook people if wifi or consumer devices really are capable of doing so much damage, then it stands to reason any plane flying over a major metropolitan area should have all its screens go blank
It's never happened except ONE time during a test where they intended to make it happen. It's just a Better Safe Than Sorry approach, which sounds reasonable to me. $14m to do it is chump change to be honest. Some airlines make several hundred million dollars in quarterly profits
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