RE: Civilian Airband scanners

YES! thanks Mongu…I forgot to mention this…If we are not allowed radios onboard then why do they sell them onboard? Last week a world-wide band radio was in the mag. surely close enough up the band and near the transmitters you are bound to pick up the odd interference from the FD…..?

Yes Mongu..Lazor products…I have always been informed that they are not allowed onboard.

Battery operated products…perhaps its because they dont want passengers to have hold of anything that could cause damge to them selves or others during the most risky parts of the flight (T/o, landing and bad turbulence)…just another guess… And things like watches and pacemakers will operate on a lower rating than a gameboy for example (6 volts).

Regards

Ben

RE: Civilian Airband scanners

I was told that all battery operated equipment such as cassettes, gameboys, fans etc… were aloud to be used when the seat belt signs were not illuminated. Other times (T/O and landing) were dissaloud. The only products not aloud at any time whatsoever are Lazor products (CD players and lazor pens etc..) and mobile phones due the fact that they TRANSMIT a signal and do not just RECIEVE.

As for Radios disrupting the electronics on the FD…I dont think so. All they do is listen in to the signal…they do not transmit so they send no returning signals and so must not disrupt the FD…Even if a RECIEVER was on a different frequncy it shouldn’t.

Ok so Scanners are illegal on an aicraft, but All I can conclude is that it is for security reasons…they don’t want us to know if somthing has gone wrong. I suppose you can ask yourself…would you want to know if somthing was wrong?

Regards

Ben

RE: I’m back from my voyage!

Ahh good old Mahon. I’ve been there a couple of times…do you know the name of your resort?

Regards

Ben