[geeks] gps on plane

[Scott Howard]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 01:45:16AM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> The other day, I was using a small gps unit on a flight from
> uk-->greece, just looking at how far to go etc. Was fine for about
> 1.5hrs but then one of the flight crew asked me to turn it off. Thats
> fine, if they aren't happy with me having electronics then i'll turn it
> off -safety is way more important than gadegtry.  The thing that
> confused me was the reason given, they said that you arent allowed
> anything that is capable of transmitting or receiving a signal. But..
> they allow people to have walkmans with radio's in them! they are
> capable of receiving a signal!

http://gpsinformation.net/airgps/gpsrfi.htm

There was also a letter floating about a while back from Boeing saying
that it was OK to use GPS on their aircraft, although that the airline
had final say. Can't seem to find it at the moment though..

  Scott