[geeks] gps on plane

[Shannon]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:48:31PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:03:36PM -0700, Mike F wrote:
> > Am I naive in thinking that they should just put a big shield around
> > the passenger compartments and be done with it? 
> 
> > Or is this actually a large
> > technological hurdle, to provide such shielding?
> 
> What would you construct it out of? i have a feeling that it would be
> incredibly heavy [well in terms of avionics anyway] but then i dont know
> much about radio/engineering/signal damping.


It seems you are thinking of shielding the whole aircraft, which would be
heavy, but you don't need to do that.

You only need to shield the vulnerable parts. That's how most electronic
systems are shielded.


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