Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My boss is an aviation nut and subscribes to various industry rags. It was discussed in "Pilot" magazine under the regular section they have on FAA incident reports. What I wanted to write was: "My sources are ironclad. A friend of a friend met someone once who knew someone that was on the very plane that had problems!" :-) I was just flying domestically in Canada and can report that security varies considerably from airport to airport. In Edmonton I was given the new Q&A spiel, ID check and my camera was checked out incompetently but carefully (they looked through the viewfinder to make sure the lens was clear). No problems with having my film hand-checked. My next flight out of a small airport was quite different. The chap at the counter looked quite embarrassed when I reminded him to ID me and forgot to ID my son. The x-ray people had apparently never been asked to hand-check film before and carefully squeezed each canister. I have no idea what they were looking for but it took about five minutes to check twenty rolls. John Collier > From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com> > > >> I very loosely follow the aviation scene and there have been hard >> reports of >> cell phone usage causing problems with on board electronics. >> >> John Collier > > Do you have any more information? I find this almost impossible to > believe...not that you heard that, or that the claim has been made, but that > the claim is legitimate, and conclusive. > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html