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 | | From: | Skywise | | Subject: | Re: Man Charged With Aiming Laser at Aircraft | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 20:02:53 -0000 |
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 | pooua@aol.com wrote in news:1105004458.887677.183280
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
> Skywise: "I presume the nonsense you are referring to is your own
> post?"
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> Pooua: Just tell me one thing; why would you even think that a
> microvolt signal inside a digital camera might affect the flight
> controls of a commercial aircraft, particularly when much stronger
> signals that exist all around us do not?
A microvolt signal most likely won't do anything.
However, there are many items which have more than microvolt
signals in them. Tests have been done, and are continuing to
be done to know what safety risk these devices pose for
aircraft. ISTR seeing in the news recently talk of allowing
cell phones to be used in flight since it's been found to
be safe. As the risk is determined to be none, the devices
are permitted.
But we've strayed away from my intended point, which was
your comment about pilots being "arogant, egotistical,
ignorant snobs." Those pilots are in charge of the safety
of mine and hundreds of other lives every day. I'd rather
they be "arogant, egotistical, ignorant snobs" than risk
mine and others lives, whether the risk is founded or not.
If a pilot feels something is a threat to the flight, he
has the responsibility and authority to do what he damned
well pleases to ensure the flights safety.
If the plane crashes, the plane can be replaced; the people
on board cannot.
Brian
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http://www.skywise711.com - Lasers, Seismology, Astronomy
"Can our form of government, our system of justice, survive if one
can be denied a freedom because he might abuse it?" -- Harlon Carter
Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?
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