Re: GPSr's in commercial airplanes

From: davek (davek_at_brentmere53.fsnet.co.uk)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:14:54 -0000

"William" <wood@mcesurgery.com> wrote in message
news:1105119504.009465.239360@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Was flying American Airlines last week. Had my Garmin 60CS on the tray
> table while they were coming around serving drinks. Waiting to get a
> fix.
> > Stewardess says, "Is that a GPS?" (sic. I wanted to tell her it was
> unlikely an entire GPS would fit in the cabin of the plane).

I took the precaution of asking the stewardess on easyJet-(low cost
European) if it would be ok to switch on my gps receiver (SP3). She asked
what it was so I asked her to speak to the captain who would know what it
was. She came back and said "Captain O'Donnell says you may use the device,
but would you let him know if we go off course."
Next flight on bmibaby (another low cost European) I was told-on a flight
from UK to southern Spain, that it was illegal to video out of the window.
Queried it with the company but never received a reply.
DaveK. 

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