Otto Nove Due wrote:
I'm not aware of any documented cases to suggest that the use of mobiles on board have ever interfered with aircraft systems, no more than there is evidence to suggest that it's dangerous to use them while filling up your car at the petrol station.
Right! The general rule (at least here in Norway) is that it's prohibited to use any equipment containing a transmitter or receiver. I can understand, to a degree (better safe than sorry), why they ban transmitters but receivers?
Although a receiver will emit electromagnetic radiation from its local oscillator, it is a mind-boggling low power. Probably less than background radiation from ground stations or cosmic radiation (the latter was ironic).
