Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hmmm. I know I have made cell calls in the past from within a commercial airliner, both at the gate and while during long waits on the tarmac [not in the air though]. I'm sorry, but I don't buy the "completely enclosed metallic structure" gambit; airplanes have windows. Try using a GPS unit in them sometime; the signal is quite strong near the window and fades as the GPS unit is moved away. Also, I can get pager messages and cell phone calls in a completely enclosed metal elevator as it is traveling; just depends on the strength of the signals. It was widely published and broadcast throughout the news media that one of the doomed passengers on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was talking to his family on his cell phone in the aircraft restroom just before it augured in. I don't believe any of the on-board phones have cords that stretch more than 18 to 24 inches, so I don't agree with your opinion on that item either. /Mitch Zeissler - -----Original Message----- From: Austin Franklin [mailto:darkroom@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 11:29 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: New Aviation Rules <<snip>> When the cell phone is inside a completely enclosed metallic structure? I can't get service in Home Depot! <<snip>> They weren't cell phones from what I understand, but the on-board plane phones... Do you know they were in fact cell phones? I don't know that the people who received the calls actually knew, or even really asked, if the people on the other end were on their cell phones? If you really know they were on cell phones, and you have a source for this, I'd like to check it out. <<snip>> Do you KNOW there is a law that prohibits the use of (specifically) cell phones on airplanes? I go on a ferry boat a lot, and there is no such restriction for cell phones. I can only guess that this restriction you believe does not pertain to cell phones, but if you have a URL for an exact wording of this "restriction", I'd be interested. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html