Malaysian Airlines flight 370

[KAPA]

So you are telling me it is magic when I hold my cell phone up to the CDI needle in the cockpit? Not only does it interfere with the VOR, it also messes with voice communications. I had a student one time that brought his daughter along and she sat in the back seat. Coming back to the airport we were getting all sorts of interference on the comms. I turn around and look at her and she says she got bored looking out the window and is on her phone. As soon as she turns it off everything works fine. Have had plenty of other times when phones were left on and we could barely understand our clearance prior to takeoff because someone left their phone on.

Fact is electronic signals close to the instrument or antenna of the aircraft can affect Navs and Comms. I have seen it and experienced it many times in slow planes and fast planes.

[Gunner]

Can't tell if you are being serious or not... I guess I will say get out of the lab, and get into a cockpit.

I know a pilot who flys for UPS and asked him about it awhile back. He says he has never seen any proof that it messes with anything. Only thing he has seen was when a jump seater plugged in his laptop and instrument went dead when he unplugged it all was normal.

Then again I'm not a pilot never have been nor claim to be so I'm no professional just speaking from what I've heard. But I've also heard a lot in my time.


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[KAPA]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0O1_FYzbjw

It is a frustrating feeling when you are trying to get cleared for an Approach when the weather is bad and you can barely hear the controller over that sound.

How many pax on cell phones does your UPS buddy fly around?

[brutal]

We're not talking about cell in the cockpit, we're talking about the passenger compartment.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Actually, we are talking about a missing flight, damn it!!!!

[Gunner]

Actually, we are talking about a missing flight, damn it!!!!

Hahaha!!


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[Ridge]

What about a meteor strike? One in a billion chance, but it COULD happen.

[sniper7]

Very strange stuff going on. Can be multiple things from mid air explosion, terrorist/high jacking that took the airplane to another country low level. Poor radar coverage in that area of the world. Vietnam routinely has radar outages, or no radar coverage at all.
Hopefully some sort of solid news comes out soon.

[HoneyBadger]

What about a meteor strike? One in a billion chance, but it COULD happen.

I think Kim Jong Un simply willed the plane to disappear.

[asmo]

Can't tell if you are being serious or not... I guess I will say get out of the lab, and get into a cockpit.

Absolutely serious. In a previous life we verified this for several DoD and civilian agencies. It is utter and complete bullshit.

I can make a cool device that *will* dangerously and harmfully mess with the planes electronics, comms and nav systems. But it won't be a common phone, laptop, or tablet.