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Old Oct 28, 2010 | 4:55 pm
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Originally Posted by rjw242
Unsubstantiated.
In aviation we don't allow potential risks until proven to be unsafe, we disallow potential risks until proven to be safe.

Interference is certainly possible. I see it personally a couple of time a year. It's there when the phone/device is on, or in a particular mode or activity, and gone when it is off. How many times do I have to repeat the on/off correlation cycle before I can say that the device is causing the interference?

The interference that I have seen personally is with the communication radio and cell phones. Mythbusters produced interference with a VOR navigation signal. The ASRS reports describe many different types of interference which comes and goes with the electronic device being switched on and off. How many examples must there be for you to believe that interference is possible?

Originally Posted by planemechanic
Live in the dream world if you must, but your assumptions are using faulty logic.
I am not making assumptions. I am applying established risk-management techniques. You seem to believe that if one test shows no interference then interference is impossible. That is the faulty logic.
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