Article: 19044 of sci.geo.satellite-nav From: see.my.sig@bigpond.com (Noel Bachelor) Newsgroups: sci.geo.satellite-nav Subject: Re: Another airline approves GPS usage Organization: Language Recordings Inc. (Darwin, Australia) Reply-To: Noel Bachelor Message-ID: <3c8f5080.24549864@news.bigpond.com> References: <73d15d30.0203062200.3e7d16a5@posting.google.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 23 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:25:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.138.119.214 X-Trace: newsfeeds.bigpond.com 1016155220 144.138.119.214 (Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:20:20 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:20:20 EST Path: news.meer.net!ord-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwpad.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!newsfeeds.bigpond.com!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net sci.geo.satellite-nav:19044 On or about Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:51:47 +0000 (UTC), Povl H. Pedersen allegedly wrote: > On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:37:46 +0000, > Frank Hollis wrote: > > On 6 Mar 2002 22:00:34 -0800, reesr@wi.net (Rees) wrote: > > > >>The use of any portable electronic device, that has the capacity to > >>intentionally radiate or transmit electromagnetic energy, is > >>prohibited on the aircraft at all times. > > > > So, that's no flashlights allowed eh? > > That is correct. And any battery driven wristwatch and smartcards > with radio transmission will also have to be handed over to the > crew on entry to the plane. Just don't turn on the backlight of your GPS. ;-) Noel Bachelor noelbachelorAT(From:_domain) S 12.416980 E130.922680