Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 14 May 91 08:39:35 PDT From: Phydeaux Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular Phone Use in Aircraft ... It Worked For Me! Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 361, Message 8 of 9 Lines: 31 > Warning: Using a Cellular phone on an aircraft is a violation of federal > law and probably some FAA regulations too. You risk getting arrested. Yes -- but they don't *tell* you that anywhere, so I assume I'll get at least one warning (before possible arrest) if I decide to try it again ... BTW, the connection was pretty good! I guess I'll find out where I was when the bill comes ;-) We were 20 minutes out of Orlando at the time. Pat, I don't understand ... on the one hand you tell me to let you know all the details if/when I try this again. A few days later you wrote that you hoped next time I "[decide] to flex the rules a little .. try the one which says 'keep all radios ... turned off in areas where dynamite and other explosive powders are being used.'" By the way, I don't plan on doing this again, I just wanted to see if it would work. [Moderator's Note: I changed my mind; or actually, I am sort of ambivilent about the whole thing. On the one hand, it is an interesting test, and the results -- from someone who has authenticated them through testing -- would be a fun topic here. But after originally telling you to report further results when you had them, I got to thinking it really is a bad practice and should not be encouraged. The chance of a dangerous result is probably remote, or at least about as unlikely as a dynamite explosion caused by a radio transmission, but those things *can* happen. Really, today I don't know what I think on this topic. PAT]