Besides, the question isn't one of whether use of a radio makes sense or
not.  The question is what the law is.

Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Bob Tinney wrote:

> Walt, please get a life.  Have you ever listened to a radio of any kind in a
> modern airplane?  The planes of today are full of rf producing electrical
> devices.  Laptop computers make more Rf than does a local oscillator in a
> handheld scanner or ht.  That FCC rule was promulgated in response to a
> crash back in the forties when a passenger was listening to an old tube type
> portable radio and it through off the plane's navigational system.  Those
> old radios used to transmit with their local oscillators for blocks.  I
> can't even hear the local oscillators of either my handheld scanner or ht
> with a receiver right next to them.
>
> I agree that one should not transmit without clearance from the pilot and I
> turn off my equipment during takeoff and landing, but I can see no logical
> reason for not listening while flying.
> Bob Tinney, [log in to unmask], K8LR
>