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This would require us to put a plane up with 200 ipads on board and have some pilot fly it until it drops out of the sky. Good pilots are rare and sacrificing p
by anonymous 14y ago
This would require us to put a plane up with 200 ipads on board and have some pilot fly it until it drops out of the sky. Good pilots are rare and sacrificing people for testing planes is a really sucky proposition just to see if you can play farmville while in the air. You could ask that the plane fly without a pilot on board, but that would require the manufacture of some sort of autonomatic pilotation device and given how we don't even have self-driving cars, I don't see it happening any time soon.
- epochwolf 14y agoWhy can't you test the plane with 200 ipads on the ground?
- ricardobeat 14y agoWe've had autonomous aircraft for years. But no, this would only require having a plane on the ground, 200 mobile devices and monitoring the plane's systems. A crash need not be part of the test. Thank god you're not heading the FDA, that would be genocide.
- mpweiher 14y agoHuh? How about measuring emissions reaching the cockpit instruments, putting instruments in the back, doing tests on the ground, doing tests outside the airplane with different types of instruments, allowing devices on modern (more heavily shielded) planes and then seeing whether there are statistically more of these benign incidents (pilot obviously has discretion to ban devices, as always), since we haven't actually seen any planes drop out of the sky, ...
- wglb 14y agoKeep in mind that the interference will be different in the air. The desired signals that the avionics need fade as the distance squared from the transmitter. There is no corresponding fade from the interference in the passenger compartment.