[AusNOG] WIFI/Internet on Planes

[Chris Hurley]

Medical people, Doctors, nurses, ambos never turn of their mobiles.
Nor do flight crews. Pilots now have all their charts/manuals etc on iPads.
Do I detect a theme.


On 8/07/14 2:17 PM, "Alex Samad - Yieldbroker" <Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com>
wrote:

> I always find it interesting in medical centre where they have NO MOBILE signs
> every where, because they might interfere with the computers and all the
> workers have their mobile phones and use them in the business..
> 
> A
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of
>> Roland Dobbins
>> Sent: Tuesday, 8 July 2014 2:02 PM
>> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] WIFI/Internet on Planes
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 8, 2014, at 9:33 AM, John Edwards <jaedwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> - Devices must be switched off during takeoff and landing.
>> 
>> The truth of the matter is that nobody actually switches devices off - they
>> just blank the screens.
>> 
>> This alone disproves the theory that consumer-grade electronic devices
>> (which are already designed to various governmental specs to minimize
>> interference) cause any issues for avionics - otherwise, planes would be
>> dropping from the skies because nobody actually turns off devices, and very
>> few people even know what 'flight mode' is, heh.
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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