[time-nuts] Boeing 787 GPS reception trouble
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jun 2 16:18:14 UTC 2014
In message <538C82B8.5020504 at earthlink.net>, Jim Lux writes:
>The reason for "radio receiver ban" originally [...]
Actually, there was a very specific incident where somebody brought
a television on a plane in order to see something important. We're
talking 1950-1960 timeframe and and a tube-television.
Apparently this disturbed something in the cockpit, but there is
no evidence to indicate that it was actually a problem in the
cockpit, only that they spotted some kind of noise.
And that's when and why the FAA introduced the ban.
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