On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Andrew Warren wrote:

> Peter L. Peres <piclist@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Let's see, 150 of 300 passengers have their phones on, with about
>> 0.6W each (is this correct ? - assume the cell repeater is not ok
>> and power feedback fails) in the body of the plane which reflects
>> and conducts this rfi towards/through/into aircraft systems some of
>> which are 30 years old.
>
>    A fiery death in a crash caused by all that RFI would likely be
>    a welcome relief for the passengers who would otherwise be forced
>    to listen to 150 idiots yelling into their cellphones for 3000
>    miles.
>
>    Stupid people who think lifting the cellphone ban is a good idea
>    should be in favor of lifting the in-flight smoking ban, too.

The problem is that nobody really needs to talk. If the cell relay in 
the plane goes crazy or loses power at a critical moment it can cause 
all the phones to send channel seek handshake packets at essentially the 
same time, repeatedly.

Peter
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