Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:31:03 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> There's probably nothing that prevents the cell signal from being used,
>>> and if the plane is already doomed, turning on a cell phone isn't
>>> likely to make things worse.
>> The primary reason not to do this is that your phone will be in range of
>> many more towers than you normally would be. For some cell systems, this
>> is a Bad Thing, for performance, capacity, and possibly even for
>> routing. It probably has nothing to do with the actual plane
>> electronics.
> 
> Well, I do recall that the Mythbusters tested this myth, and it rated 
> "plausible" with relation to the electronics.  Still, I've been on plenty 
> of planes where people have not turned off their phones and they all made 
> it to their destination without incident...

Um, yeah. That's waht I was saying. It's not a problem for the airplane. 
It's a problem for the phone carriers.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
  "How did he die?"   "He got shot in the hand."
     "That was fatal?"
          "He was holding a live grenade at the time."

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