Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!sri-unix!CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA From: CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Are portable computers a danger to airplanes in flight? Message-ID: <12379@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 03:37:37 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12379 Posted: Wed Sep 26 03:37:37 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 09:23:33 EDT Lines: 13 From: Werner Uhrig[ from Popular Computing, Nov 84, p23, section UPDATE ] After more than a year of controversy, an advisory committee to the airline industry has concluded they do not. While saying the computers should not be prohibited, the head of the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics recommended as an extra precaution that the machines not be used during takeoff and landing, when the need for radio-controlled navigation systems is most critical. [ I, recently, read that some airlines now explicitly permit their use. ] -------