Mobile phones
Totally apart from mobiles being the bane of modern day existence...
I spoke to a pilot of a heli that in one day had to do 3 emergency landings when the chip detector went off.
Each time the filter was checked out...nothing
It was reported and when the investigation was concluded they found that it was a Nokia mobile (one of the old models) that caused the problem when it "polled" a ground station, it also interfered with the monitoring systems on board the aircraft.
Don't ask me when it was ages ago.
Binos, I heard that the reason was that when the mobiles poll in flight, they are hitting more than one ground based station and causes their system to have a kitten? Dunno if that is true either!
edit for poor spelling
Last edited by divingduck; 18th Feb 2005 at 12:53.