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Danphonic, I think the issue of using phones inside the plane is the induction the electromagnetic pulse could possibly induce in the wires in the aircraft systems. Flight Decks are essentially Faraday cages so isolated from anything going on in the plane behind it. Filters on all the electrics remove the induction together with loads on the common Earth loop. It is like the ban on phones at petrol pumps. Completely meaningless as a phone could never ignite petrol - but a static spark from charge form your seats and carpets can!!! It is completely safe now to use wifi and 3g/4g of a plane if in range of a mast.

5G must be up as one of the biggest corruptions of all time. How could it be possible that they would be allowed to use part of the spectrum which has already been assigned to other uses? It should never have even been a suggestion. I suspect a lot of brown envelopes and bungging go on. Apparently it is needed for driverless cars. Given the kill rate of those monsters, the traffic snarl ups and myriad of problems, is 5G such a good idea?

The 5G uses part of the same band as the radar that many planes use for altimeter readings. The US masts are also much more powerful and right inside the altimeter range. It would be like using a red laser of a specific wavelength for your distance measurement whilst nearby somebody is pointing a strobe red laser of the same or very near same frequency which is 100 times more powerful. There is a possibility your altimeter picks up the strobe and gives a false reading.

I skipped a speeding ticket on a motorbike due to this. The cross hair of the laser range finder was in my headlights, which were on daylight running as are most bikes. So was the laser range finder used for calculating my speed picking up its own infrared reflected pulse, or part of the infrared of my hot incandescent light bulb? So I can understand why there is concern, although the wavelength quantisation ar radar frequencies is somewhat smaller and cross-over much less likely (hence higher data carrying capacity). But, safety first.

Am I not going to see my 5% rise today the? I was estimating that the 5G rollout would be suspended near airports and therefore there would be no disruption. I'm surprised to read headline after headline of cancellations and schedule changes as alternative aircraft are sought. BA being one of those airlines following safety note from Boing about the 777s. Most sector are just below the mark except IAG, and I would guess that is due to the US routes and 5G.

I think the effect will be temporary and test flights will hopefully give the all clear within a week or so.

But the same rule applies, a dip caused by some transient news story. There will be a bounce back, but not today!

Masks may not be mandatory anymore, but still advised. Why? They do nothing but facilitate the super spreading. I wish Diverse reports would air the documentary on their shelf exposing the sham of masks.

But for airline sp it is the sodding testing regime that is the most important. Any further testing anywhere is a completely pointless exercise. The hospitals are nowhere near being stressed anywhere, more than would be expected this time of year. There is just no reason to extend the pandemic any further. It is over, all the data shows it is over and all the extra weeks experts have been buying to try and prove otherwise have ran out.

https://simpleflying.com/concorde-first-commercial-flight/

Scroll down for link of first comm flight, check out the super advanced ground vehicles!

Would it be cheaper to go somewhere hot and cheap instead of turning the heating on?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10417587/British-Airways-latest-carrier-scrambling-change-transatlantic-flights-amid-5G-rollout.html

Looks like BA is also playing the cautious card. Whilst the sp is picking up due the 5G suspension near airports, airlines are taking no chances. I think this will unravel during the day and the US opening will bump the sp a few percent more as the impact dilutes down. How many of those flights are actually low load factor and this provides a cover for pulling them?

Looking like the 5G compromise is leaking through to market sentiment and opening dips U-turning. My 5% target on the day is still achievable, especially given there will be an announcement on ending restrictions today. I hope there will be a clean break and everything will be lifted, but the mask lobby is very vocal at the moment trying to cling on to their little slice of the pandemic and the WHO trying push back the rhetoric to mid pandemic uncertainty. Talking heads in the media feeding off that trying to keep it going, but looking at real people comments on news bb, the whole scam is busted open all over the world.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10415373/Furious-MPs-told-calm-row-Government-modelling-Covid-pandemic.html#comments

What is interesting, scroll down to the comments section. A lot of people announcing this is no surprise to them. I've been attacked heavily before on here pointing out things like the modelling, face masks, nudge theory and so on. As we come out of the pandemic we wait to see how far the enquiry will dig into the expert claims and the nudge theory unit propaganda. If it is done properly, it will be damning reading. And furthermore, this is is exactly how we have ended up with the climate change hysteria and pending economic and societal collapse as the net zero campaign bites deeper and deeper. Maybe the pandemic will serve us in an unexpected way and help save us from ourselves destroying our societies.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10415373/Furious-MPs-told-calm-row-Government-modelling-Covid-pandemic.html

No surprise here either. There is a growing scandal on the way the pandemic has been used by the experts for their own purposes, worldwide. It is a small step to draw the exact same conclusions on climate change claims. A very small step.

Those gongs were given away far too early!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10415367/76-reported-COVID-19-vaccine-effects-imagined-phenomena-called-nocebo-effect.html

No suprise

https://eturbonews.com/3014797/emirates-suspending-flights-to-the-united-states-us-airports-unsafe/

Seems that even with an agreement to not turn on 5G masts within 2 miles of airports, a lot of airlines are being cautious and cancelling a lot of flights anyway. It might look a bit of an overkill, but these days you can't be too careful. I don't expect any planes landing short or over shooting runways as I would assume the pilots will remember how to land manually and so be taking the controls. The main issues will be in low visibility if, IF, the proximity and altimeter's are affected by 5G signals.
Remember, there was a JAL plane that hit a mountain because it is thought when the pilot announced they were going to be delayed in a holding pattern, a lot of passengers tried make mobile phone calls to warn people waiting on the ground and those phone signals made the instruments return false data. Best to be cautious.

Should see a 5% plus tomorrow which should stick on the news of 5G delayed around airports. Why a safety critical step ended up being implemented by the Whitehouse is any body's guess.

Concorde had big tyre problems, loads popping when landing.

I have always there was some funny business when it was suddenly withdrawn. One theory I was told about in DC was that Americans were intensely jealous in Washington and the noise was a reminder in the capital every day. They took advantage of the crash to pressure BA and France to withdraw it so the Brits didn't have something better than the yanks. MAGA started a long time before Trump!
Another theory was France couldn't make business case for the post crash modifications, but BA could. So France was to withdraw the aircraft and there was no way they would let the Brits rule the skies and Blair's compliance to push WW was easy on the back of European unity arguments.
It didn't need to be withdrawn by BA, I remember the pilots in open revolt with the engineers. I think it cost more to decommission than if were run with an operating loss for a decade. It was in operating profit when withdrawn.

I used to know a lady who worked at the ARB in Bedford and was part of the team doing wind tunnel experiments on the various delta wing designs. She worked on a lot more design testing in the wind tunnel as the plane was developed. IN her words, the UK didn't need the French, they were over complicated in what they wanted to do, not economic at all [something that would come back and bite the project] and a long way behind in aircraft development compared to the British. In fact she used to say the project was really a back door for the French to get access to huge amounts of wing, dynamics and engine R&D done within the UK, like the yanks knicking our jet engine data and not reciprocating with theirs. Her opinion.

"Remember without them there would never have been a Concorde."

Lights blue touch paper and stand well back.......

Just watched the IAG media podcast on LSE, or should that be daddy's MILF podcast for the day ;)

As a side note, there was a lot of misunderstanding of the Y2K. The critical problem was not that the diary would be wrong, most systems would handle that without incident. The problem was the clock on a generic chip overclocking with a two digit date to 00 and then the ALU attempting to divide by the year, for example to check for a leap year, division by zero is an error and the system could stall and just hang with the error if an appropriate error handling routine wasn't built in. As chips became increasingly generic and TTL was replaced by lower voltage CMOS, the double digit date was phased out as the increasingly generic CMOS were built with error handling and system dates which were back calculated to present a date if required. But there were still a few systems out there that fell down. Some of the Italian coastguard systems stopped working and in most other instances software patches intercepted the errors and executed handling routines. The biggest computer problem of 2000 was the leap year, because it wasn't one. A lot of programs and on chip systems did not have the millennial exception rule built in.

The question isn't whether this is Y2K repeated, it is that airlines are taking the stance they are. However unlikely it is playing space invaders on your mobile while watching the planes will force one to ditch short of the runway, if the airlines decide not to fly then that will have an impact on the reopening of air travel which it has to be admitted is much more sluggish over the Atlantic than people had hoped for.
Considering how some accidents have happened, and the fact the US signals are far stronger and in the higher band frequencies than some of the existing 5G services elsewhere, the precautionary principle might be best. We don't want fleets grounded for years like the MAX trying to sort of some technical problem following a crash. 5G can wait a couple of more months next to airports, it can go ahead everywhere else.

Philistine!