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Turning Off iPhone Critical to Pilots Citing Interference
The regional airliner was climbing past 9,000 feet when its compasses went haywire, leading pilots several miles off course until a flight attendant persuaded a passenger in row 9 to switch off an Apple Inc. iPhone. (www.bloomberg.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Well said Sparkie..takes guts to tell the truth. If all of us would stop being intimidated there would be real progress in problem solving.
Regarding your Amateur Radio experiment. Do you remember the frequency you transmitted on? Did you try different frequencies? As a working ATP pilot and an active Ham, I'm curious if the source of interference was from the transmitted RF or spurious signals from the radio.
2 Mtrs, 220, 440Mhz, and 900 Mhz. Only one that interfered was 2 mtrs (145Mhz) at 5 watts
Oops. Did not complete answer... It was from the transmitted freq, as I used different bands on the same radio (2/220/440 Tribander).
Interesting, thanks!
To me sounds like the crew got off course using bad piloting skills and then found something to throw the blame on... If someone has beyond the shadow of a doubt can give me a positive way to where every time you can produce a fault on board the a/c let me know. I want to try it (in a controlled environment).