Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 20 May 91 00:32:28 EDT From: John Stanley Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular Phone Use In Aircraft Message-ID: Organization: Mad Scientist 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 380, Message 2 of 10 Lines: 21 floyd@ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson) writes: > (Some day I'll tell you how I learned that > Loran C can be 60 degrees off. No problem, just makes the pilot eyes > get large when he breaks out of the clouds ...) It is not hard. I live withing flying distance of the master station for the 9960 (Northeast) chain of Loran. One of the standard airways between Syracuse and Buffalo passes right over it. During my last flight to Buffalo on that airway (using VOR's and not LORAN for navigation) the LORAN told me that I was alternately going north, south, east or west at anywhere from 200 to 400 knots, for the entire last half of the flight. The display updates about every six seconds, and turning from north at 400 knots to south at 400 knots withing six seconds would certainly exceed the G limits of the airplane, if not the limits of the human body. This was in a Cessna 172. The 'never exceed' speed is about 130 knots, and this aircraft cannot reach that speed in level flight.