Reliable method for air/ground communications?

"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
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Without getting into a discussion of just which cell phones cannot be used
in flight, the easy answer is to buy a couple of Family Radio Service
handhelds. Cell phones licensed under Part 22 of the FCC regulations
cannot be used in flight...do you know the regs under which your phone is
licensed?

Nope, but if I'm the PIC I'm making the call (literally.) Unless making a
15-second cell-phone call fifteen minutes out from the destination airfield
is going to somehow prevent me from getting there, I'm not going to worry
about it.

I can just see it happening, though... CAVU, destination in site,
speed-dial the number to notify and BOOM! Lost, out of fuel, out of
control. Fireball in the sky from the fuel tanks randomly exploding like
that Pinto in Top Secret. Probably happens all the time in LA. :

-c

gatt wrote:
control. Fireball in the sky from the fuel tanks randomly exploding like
that Pinto in Top Secret. Probably happens all the time in LA. :

-c



What, with the Pinto or the cell phone?

gatt wrote:
"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
. ..
Without getting into a discussion of just which cell phones cannot
be used in flight, the easy answer is to buy a couple of Family
Radio Service handhelds. Cell phones licensed under Part 22 of the
FCC regulations cannot be used in flight...do you know the regs
under which your phone is licensed?

Nope, but if I'm the PIC I'm making the call (literally.) Unless
making a 15-second cell-phone call fifteen minutes out from the
destination airfield is going to somehow prevent me from getting
there, I'm not going to worry about it.

I can just see it happening, though... CAVU, destination in site,
speed-dial the number to notify and BOOM! Lost, out of fuel, out of
control. Fireball in the sky from the fuel tanks randomly exploding
like that Pinto in Top Secret. Probably happens all the time in LA. :
-c

The FCC regulations banninng cell phones in aircraft have nothing to do with
causing aircraft to crash. If they did they would be FAA regulations. They
are about disrupting the cell phone system.

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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The FCC regulations banninng cell phones in aircraft have nothing to do
with causing aircraft to crash. If they did they would be FAA regulations.
They are about disrupting the cell phone system.

FCC vs. FAA. I used to trip up on them all the time when I was an FM radio
program director and also a student pilot. ...I'd walk up to a DJ and say

"You need to fill out your FAA logs..."
"What?"

....if somebody told me one that cell phone issue was FCC regulation, it's
perfectly possible that I ranted about the FAA.

-c