Mobile phones on LH
Joined: Mar 2005
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From: Gatwick
Mobile Phones in Flight?
Whilst sitting in the flight deck of a B737-200 doing a few routine preflight checks, the Aural Warning unit suddenly started making strange noises. This stopped as the Airline rep hung up on her mobile phone. When i asked her to make a call a second time, the Aural Warning unit did the same thing.
Put your mobile phone near a speaker and listen next time it receives an SMS.
I can assure you that airlines will NEVER make it a policy to allow mobiles phone to be used once the engines have started.
Put your mobile phone near a speaker and listen next time it receives an SMS.
I can assure you that airlines will NEVER make it a policy to allow mobiles phone to be used once the engines have started.
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From: arizona, u.s.
It is indeed right that LH changed its policy on mobile phone usage! It used to be not allowed at all onboard the aircraft to use your mobile phone!
Now it is possible to use your cell phone onboard until the doors have been closed on departure or after the doors have been opened after arrival at the gate!
So doŽnt stress out over this since this is still much more restrictive than most of the US airlines. It also is true that cell phones do work in the air, but the signal usually fades out when you climb through 6,000 - 8,000 feet (at least in Germany)! For phone service in the air we do provide a few satellite phones in the aircraft of our longhaul fleet!
Happy calling.....
a LH 340driver
Now it is possible to use your cell phone onboard until the doors have been closed on departure or after the doors have been opened after arrival at the gate!
So doŽnt stress out over this since this is still much more restrictive than most of the US airlines. It also is true that cell phones do work in the air, but the signal usually fades out when you climb through 6,000 - 8,000 feet (at least in Germany)! For phone service in the air we do provide a few satellite phones in the aircraft of our longhaul fleet!
Happy calling.....
a LH 340driver
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From: south of Cirencester, north of Lyneham
Radeng is currently sitting in a meeting at ETSI (the European Telecommunications Standardisation Institute) There's just been a report on a proposal being discussed in several other European regulatory fora on providing cellular coverage in airliners. The basic proposal is to have a jammer covering all but one or two cellphone channels in the 'plane: the unjammed channels will be linked by a satellite link from the 'plane (at doubtless a suitable rate!) into the public telecomms network.
There are many arguments, because there are questions as to whether or not the jammer can be controlled enough not to jam the terrestrial network, whether in fact deliberate jamming in other than special security/defence applications is legal under international law (the international Radio Regulations), the number of jammers involved, especially on intercontinental flights, and the effects on aircraft radio and electronic systems etc. A real Tom Tiddlers ground! I gather the airlines like the idea of providing the service because they can get some of the $3 a minute or whatever for it.
There are many arguments, because there are questions as to whether or not the jammer can be controlled enough not to jam the terrestrial network, whether in fact deliberate jamming in other than special security/defence applications is legal under international law (the international Radio Regulations), the number of jammers involved, especially on intercontinental flights, and the effects on aircraft radio and electronic systems etc. A real Tom Tiddlers ground! I gather the airlines like the idea of providing the service because they can get some of the $3 a minute or whatever for it.
