On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:10:50 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> What does surprise me is that in a moving aircraft, the GPS receiver in
>> my phone is useless.
> 
> Not all of them are. My brother has a trace from his exercize watch that
> shows him flying across country.

Well, I didn't think all of them were, after all, the plane has one 
itself. :-)

But that actually was what I wanted to try - I like playing with flight 
simulators, and it's useful to be able to get speed and altitude 
information from a GPS trace from an actual flight. :-)

>> I could as well, but then again, there are lots of wireless signals
>> flying around in open space, but I would expect something that's
>> designed to fly through the air to have some shielding against it.
> 
> Especially that in which the general public will be flying. I'm not
> surprised there are industrial settings where following the rules is
> more important than in an airplane passenger compartment.

Same here, I think (the "not surprised" bit is confusing me, but that may 
just be fatigue and the fact that I just got home from a 90 minute 
community council meeting where the primary discussion most of the time 
was "accessory dwelling units".  Yeehaw.

Jim

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