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Cell phone Use on Airplanes |
Fingers
Joined: Jan 29, 2002
Posts: 468
From: New Zealand
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Maybe you should explain things a little better then, just think about the fact that I can't read next time you're flying, oh dear the guy that fixed my plane can't read, where are we going to end up, oh yeah and I'm colourblind dislexic and have no arms, fancy me fixing planes eh? And maybe you can't read because I've explained just about everything in all of my posts on this subject, I'm quite good at understanding complicated stuff, that's why I fix aircraft and specialise in systems trouble shooting.
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Froddan
Joined: Jan 18, 2002
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Buy an own aircraft, and do whatever you like. Should solve all issues.
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Fingers
Joined: Jan 29, 2002
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From: New Zealand
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Yes start your own airline and see how well you can do it, and you're first mistake is flying BA, I've worked for them and I sure as hell wouldn't fly with them after seeing how their engineers work. |
Froddan
Joined: Jan 18, 2002
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Lol. Yea, but there are many companies that are far worse than BA.
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Fingers
Joined: Jan 29, 2002
Posts: 468
From: New Zealand
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Yes you'd be surprised how bad some are, and what they think they can get away with |
Froddan
Joined: Jan 18, 2002
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I'm afraid I know too much as it is. I'm a \"redcap\" at Arlanda, I've seen a lot. I'll stick to my car, just as a safety precaution.
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Fingers
Joined: Jan 29, 2002
Posts: 468
From: New Zealand
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The Swedish airlines are pretty good, worked for SAS for a while and on the Swedish airforce aircraft too, all in great condition |
Froddan
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The Swedish and Finnish airlines keep a high standard, so fly SAS or Finnair. There are many good companies, but also many well known that aren't what the claim to be. What company are you working for? .
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andrew99
Joined: Nov 29, 2001
Posts: 254
From: london
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interesting point made a bit earlier about GSM phones struggling to hand over when travelling faster than 250km/h. If I recall I didn't tend to get very good reception on the Eurostar, that could explain it?
Has anyone else noticed on high speed trains (ie 250km/h plus, not the crappy ones in the UK  ) whether they get reception or not?
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decoy7
Joined: Feb 06, 2002
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From: NW London
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my reception was fine a few months back while travelling at 160mph/257kmh in France but i was in a car.
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MrHat
Joined: Jun 09, 2002
Posts: 41
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I think decoy7's point was that if it was on the boarding pass ticket then u could know in advance whether u could use your mobile while boarding etc.
I can also see how it would be easy for some1 to use their mobile after flying with an airline that allows you to while boarding. Personally I always turn it off as even they allow it I don't want the embaressment of my phone going off on the plane.
Also it makes you look very popular when u get off the plane and your mobile goes off with all your missed texts |
Unibond
Joined: Jun 23, 2002
Posts: 70
From: Sunny Malta
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Well said Fingers.
I work as cabin crew and I always have a problem with peaple and thier mobiles. I cannot understand why peaple have to use thier phone on a plane. They know what thier doing is wrong cause when I kindly ask them to switch off thier phone all they tell me is "yes, I know".
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Fingers
Joined: Jan 29, 2002
Posts: 468
From: New Zealand
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280 km/h is about the take off speed for something like a 747 and it just gets quicker from there on, average cruising speed is around about 0.8 mach, mach being the speed of sound which varies with temperature, the speed of sound on the international standard day is 1224 km/h (763 mp/h) that's at 14.9 degrees C at sea level, that's the international agreed standard. That's why on a really cold morning you hear the exhaust crackling, that's the exhaust gasses breaking the sound barrier, or small sonic booms. The biggest problem with using your phone on an aircraft is the fact that the ground stations can't handle it, it's moving to fast for them. To be honest I've used my phone while sitting in the pilots seat doing funtional checks, engine runs etc with no real problems, but it does screw things up and is noticeable. |
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Posted: 2002-07-29 16:01
