[OSM-talk] Route/flight tag

[OJW]

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 09:43, Nick Black wrote:
> It also really worries the flight crew.  On a ryan air flight from
> Spain to the UK last summer  they asked me to turn mine off.  I asked
> why, and they said it could "interfere with aircraft systems".  I
> explained that it was a receiver, not a transmitter and was unlikely
> to interfere with anything, but they werent having any of it and in
> the light of the ultra paranoid lunacy that we live in, I decided to
> turn it off.

They probably don't want your GPS giving evidence when their flight data 
recorder "disappears" after a crash... ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296