cell phone and other electronics allowed on plane?
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cell phone and other electronics allowed on plane?
OK...my newest question for those of you who have traveled internationally. Can you bring electrontics onto the plane? A friend just told me that NO cell phones, ipods or game boys are allowed. I don't think this is right but thought I'd ask first.
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Your friend will probably send you to Casablanca for the waters.
1. You may carry cell phones, but they must be powered off from cabin door closed to open again (<i>i.e.</i> when the folks in the front office are relying on electronics to keep the shiny side up).
2. You may use PDAs, iPODs, GameBoys, &c. but they must be turned off during takeoff and landing. When to power down and when it's okay to run them is announced by the flight attendants.
1. You may carry cell phones, but they must be powered off from cabin door closed to open again (<i>i.e.</i> when the folks in the front office are relying on electronics to keep the shiny side up).
2. You may use PDAs, iPODs, GameBoys, &c. but they must be turned off during takeoff and landing. When to power down and when it's okay to run them is announced by the flight attendants.
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Not sure what the logic is Robespierre - I DID ask WHY, but in usual AZ fashion, they couldn't be bothered explaining. I heard after that it has something to do with instrument interference with the Airbus, but AC use Airbus exclusively and they don't have a problem
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Well, Marconi <u>was</u> Italian...but I think they're way - way - off base with this one. A computer that's playing a DVD isn't doing anything one that's <i>not</i> playing is. Except perhaps running down the battery at a prodigious rate (optical drives are notorious power hogs).
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Logic of electronics: next time you are at a meeting with a powerful public address system, take your laptop, dvd player, etc and hold it next to a live mike. Operate it. Chances are, you will hear a loud squeal. That is your machine emitting electromagnetic interference. (If you read your manual it will give the exact specifications). This has the potential -- note potential only -- to affect certain navigational equipment, notably, if I understand correctly, altimeters, thus the ban in the first and last 10,000 feet.
Please correct me if I am wrong about the latter. I know from experience about "laptop squeal" over microphones.
Please correct me if I am wrong about the latter. I know from experience about "laptop squeal" over microphones.
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