[Escapee]

The bit that really made me laugh in th article I read pointed out that it used Pico Cell technology to avoid interfering with aircraft navigation.

This means the mobile phone will only need to be transmitting at very low power, but I can just imagine the base station receiver going low gain or the antenna connecton breaking etc. It would mean suddenly all the phones using it would transmit full power!

The bottom line of course is aircraft wiring and control is often very suseptible to interference from other RF sources. It has always amazed me that car manufacturers meet very stringent requirements but aircraft manufacturers do not.

Has anyone heard about our UAV's dropping from the sky or perhaps the Apache problems!