Electronics (cell phone, laptops, etc) interfereing with A/C nav equipment
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Electronics (cell phone, laptops, etc) interfereing with A/C nav equipment
How many of you pilots have experienced a navigation error or problem when someone uses their cellphone or other device? If you have could you describe what effect the device had on the A/C systems.
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Mobile phone interference
Below s the link to a UK CAA study conducted on the bench using standard light aircraft Nav equipment.
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAPAP2003_03.PDF
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAPAP2003_03.PDF
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see replies to this thread - the answer is "we dont really know"
http://www.pprune.org/safety-crm-qa-...-avionics.html
http://www.pprune.org/safety-crm-qa-...-avionics.html
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I have heard a mobile phone trying to connect (dit..ditditdit..dit noise) over the headset when taxiing out. Potential to drown out ATC calls (and no it wasn't the captain leaving his phone on!) Pretty off-putting really.
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Not me but one I can remember from a ASR report.
During the decent the hold smoke warning went off stayed on for 30secs then canceled, on finals it went off again.
Emergency declared landed no probs, couldn't reproduce on the ground until the engineer took a call in the hold. Where apon the smoke alarm was triggered until he finished the call. It was presumed one of the pax had left thier phone on in a bag. There was no previous with this aircraft for surious alerts and neither was thier after.
They reckon it was some sort of ionising thing going on with the detector.
During the decent the hold smoke warning went off stayed on for 30secs then canceled, on finals it went off again.
Emergency declared landed no probs, couldn't reproduce on the ground until the engineer took a call in the hold. Where apon the smoke alarm was triggered until he finished the call. It was presumed one of the pax had left thier phone on in a bag. There was no previous with this aircraft for surious alerts and neither was thier after.
They reckon it was some sort of ionising thing going on with the detector.
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MadJock,
Was that incident anything to do with the CRJ 700?
Ground handling manuals for the CRJ mention smoke dectectors being set off by mobiles, never seen it mentioned in other aircraft manuals.
Was that incident anything to do with the CRJ 700?
Ground handling manuals for the CRJ mention smoke dectectors being set off by mobiles, never seen it mentioned in other aircraft manuals.
