On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:44:22AM -0800, Doug Sutherland thus spake: > the plane. When I held my GPS antenna up to the aircraft window > it read accurately a speed of 550 mph and altiutude of 35,000 feet! > By the way GPS is "receive only" (not transmit) and cannot affect > the aircraft nav systems, so don't flame me. I even showed my GPS > in operation to both flight attendants and the pilot himself and > they were not concerned ... > > -- Doug I though so too.... I brought my radio setup with me on a trip to British Columbia so I'd have emergency radio and so the guys at work would have a laugh tracking me over APRS...so naturally I want to try the GPS on the plane. Being sometimes a really moral person <grin> I asked the stewardess if she could ask the pilot if a GPS receiver was OK to operate. She came back with the reply, looking very serious, that I shouldn't ever operate such a thing in a plane. This left me *totally* puzzled. Next time I'll ask again anyway, for I suspect either miscommunication or genuine misinformation on the part of the pilot/stewardess. I just can't stand absolute statements without underlying explanation. As for getting a wearable through airport security: not many hassles. The guards just wanted to see it boot up and assured that the battery was not containing liquid acid. (I use gel-cells) ...and this was for a totally jury rigged, aluminium case, wires all over, duct-taped first attempt at a wearcomp. :) The only thing that ever really caught security's attention, for some unknown reason, was a wall wart with the cable wrapped around it. Must look suspicious under X-Ray. Fortunately/unfortunately, airport security tends to be totally ignorant (and uncomprehending) of anything computerese beyond a laptop running DOS/Windows. Eric LaForest -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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