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