Taking hand-held transcivers on commercial airlines

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 at 08:19:45 in message
, Eric Stearns
wrote:
Keep in mind that all airlines explictly prohibit the use of any radio
receiver (yes, receiver) on board the airplane at any time...I believe
this is an FAA rule. This would prohibit the use of a VHF receiver or
a GPS anytime the airplane is in motion. As far as carrying them on,
that should be fine. -Eric

If that is true then they don't make it very clear. On four recent
flights that I was on, they made a big deal about cell phones not being
used at all, but said that 'other electronic equipment' could be used
after the signs were switched.

Most receivers have low power heterodyne signals but then all computers
contain high frequency oscillators.

Couple of years ago on a feeder airliner I sent my GPS unit up to the
cockpit as the in-flight attendant had no idea what it was. It came back
from the Captain saying I was welcome to use at long as the seat belt
sign was off. On the other hand her message said that she didn't think
it would work well where I was siting - under the wing! The Captain was
right.
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Francis E-Mail reply to

Just back from Kauai. Carried a handheld in my camera bag.
No big deal. Just leave it OFF in the airliner.
H.
N502TB, NQ5H
"Harry Gordon" wrote in message
...
As previously posted, my wife and I are flying to WI next week. I plan on
renting a plane and doing some local flying once we are there. My question
is, I have a Icom A-5 that I would like to take with me should I need
back-up communications during my local flying. Have any of you taken a
hand-held on a commercial airliner without being hassled? I know for sure,
I
would not put it in my carry-on. But I don't want my luggage opened just
because of the radio.

Comments...suggestions....

Harry

Eric Stearns wrote:
Keep in mind that all airlines explictly prohibit the use of any radio
receiver (yes, receiver) on board the airplane at any time...I believe
this is an FAA rule. This would prohibit the use of a VHF receiver or
a GPS anytime the airplane is in motion. As far as carrying them on,
that should be fine.

No, the FAA leaves it up to each airline to determine which receiving
devices to allow and many explicitly allow the use of GPS receivers when
above 10 kft. (And pilots sometimes give permission even on the airlines
which don't officially allow them.)

Thank you for your responses and suggestions. I have decided to go ahead and
take my radio on-board with me along with my other flight gear. If it gets
confiscated, I will send you the bill :-).

Harry

"Harry Gordon" wrote in message
...
As previously posted, my wife and I are flying to WI next week. I plan on
renting a plane and doing some local flying once we are there. My question
is, I have a Icom A-5 that I would like to take with me should I need
back-up communications during my local flying. Have any of you taken a
hand-held on a commercial airliner without being hassled? I know for sure,
I
would not put it in my carry-on. But I don't want my luggage opened just
because of the radio.

Comments...suggestions....

Harry

No, the FAA leaves it up to each airline to determine which receiving
devices to allow and many explicitly allow the use of GPS receivers when
above 10 kft. (And pilots sometimes give permission even on the airlines
which don't officially allow them.)

The airline I work for explicitly prohibits the use of any radio
receiver during flight...the details are included in the inflight
magazine and occassionally in flight attendant announcements. When
I've flown on other airlines I've seen similar policies. I'm not sure
what the big concern is with portable radio receivers and the policies
might be based on decades old research, but I think it applies at most
airlines.

Eric Stearns wrote:

No, the FAA leaves it up to each airline to determine which receiving
devices to allow and many explicitly allow the use of GPS receivers when
above 10 kft. (And pilots sometimes give permission even on the airlines
which don't officially allow them.)


The airline I work for explicitly prohibits the use of any radio
receiver during flight...the details are included in the inflight
magazine and occassionally in flight attendant announcements. When
I've flown on other airlines I've seen similar policies. I'm not sure
what the big concern is with portable radio receivers and the policies
might be based on decades old research, but I think it applies at most
airlines.

There's a list at:
http://www.gpsinformation.net/airgps/airgps.htm
of airline policies with regard to passenger use of GPS receivers above 10
kft. At the moment about twice as many airlines explicitly allow such use
as disallow it, but the individual policies have undergone many changes
with some airlines repeatedly switching back and forth.

If anyone knows the policy on additional airlines or a case where the
information at the above site is outdated, please mention it here or bring
it to the attention of Joe Mehaffey ) so the list can be
updated.