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I thought preventing unwanted interference between devices was what FCC rules were for. Couldn't they design aircraft equipment to tolerate radio waves from dev

• pyre 15y ago
  That costs money though. There's a reason that a good number of the planes in use are decades old.
  • artursapek 15y ago
    I've heard the level of cut-throat competition between airlines causes prices to be so low that it stunts the development of the industry. They are barely scraping by. Seems like a terrible business to be in.
• dfox 15y ago
  Standards for airborne electronics are actually even more stringent - FCC rules say in essence that your device may not produce interference and don't exactly care about whether you device works when exposed to interference. This is not exactly what you want in safety critical system. On the other hand, it's not about designing interference resilient system, but about testing that such system really works as intended, which would probably involve impractical number of tested combinations of devices (ie. consumer phones and whatever else). It's mostly about manufacturer's liability than anything else - it's cheaper to say "not supported and not tested".