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ONT California Southwest 2017 1
There's a joy to hearing the sequence of the main landing gear taking up the weight of the aircraft and the trust reversers going through their cycle. For me, there's no joy in flying anymore. It's all about getting on to the next thing.
...On a flight from New York's La Guardia airport to Chicago's O'Hare, the captain observed interference on the navigational equipment during take off. When the flight crew checked the cabin, they found a passenger using a lap top computer and asked him to turn it off. Some time later, when the same navigational problems recurred, the flight attendants discovered the same man had again turned on his lap top. On arrival at O'Hare, as the plane was descending after a long delay amid severe weather, VORs again had problems. Once more the passenger had turned his computer on. He refused repeatedly to turn it off until the captain finally took it away and had the pig headed passenger arrested for disorderly conduct when the aircraft landed.
— Linda Geppert
Source: "Faults and Failures: EMI in the Sky," EMC Test and Design, March 1994, pp. 47.
In 1995, [Boeing] bought a laptop computer from a passenger on a 737 flight after the crew suspected it of causing the autopilot to disconnect while cruising. Although the machine emitted [electromagnetic] interference above the limits …at the time, subsequent tests could not reproduce the problem.”
— Chris Edwards
Source: “Screaming Circuits: Design Teams are Trying to Find Ways to Overcome the Apparently Random Nature of Electronic Interference,” Engineering and Technology, February 2014, pp. 69.
Hint: it's not random.
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ONT California Southwest 2017 1
There's a joy to hearing the sequence of the main landing gear taking up the weight of the aircraft and the trust reversers going through their cycle. For me, there's no joy in flying anymore. It's all about getting on to the next thing.
...On a flight from New York's La Guardia airport to Chicago's O'Hare, the captain observed interference on the navigational equipment during take off. When the flight crew checked the cabin, they found a passenger using a lap top computer and asked him to turn it off. Some time later, when the same navigational problems recurred, the flight attendants discovered the same man had again turned on his lap top. On arrival at O'Hare, as the plane was descending after a long delay amid severe weather, VORs again had problems. Once more the passenger had turned his computer on. He refused repeatedly to turn it off until the captain finally took it away and had the pig headed passenger arrested for disorderly conduct when the aircraft landed.
— Linda Geppert
Source: "Faults and Failures: EMI in the Sky," EMC Test and Design, March 1994, pp. 47.
In 1995, [Boeing] bought a laptop computer from a passenger on a 737 flight after the crew suspected it of causing the autopilot to disconnect while cruising. Although the machine emitted [electromagnetic] interference above the limits …at the time, subsequent tests could not reproduce the problem.”
— Chris Edwards
Source: “Screaming Circuits: Design Teams are Trying to Find Ways to Overcome the Apparently Random Nature of Electronic Interference,” Engineering and Technology, February 2014, pp. 69.
Hint: it's not random.
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Please do not copy this image for any purpose.