Originally Posted by
simonrp84
Can you provide any example studies that demonstrate this point you make here?
Preferably those that have been peer-reviewed or published in some other noteworthy form (i.e: Not by a journalist doing a space-filler).
I'll give a hopefully good enough response to this question. Yes I have read these studies in the past when I really cared about this subject. Yes there are peer-reviewed studies that have been reprinted in popular journals such as the IEEE Spectrum, etc. As I mentioned earlier in this thread we have discussed this subject many, many times here in the BA Forum and elsewhere on Flyertalk going back over a decade. I have posted links to these in the past, but I'm just not interested in spending an hour or more searching again. Most people know how to use Google now and if you have any experience in electrical engineering you can find it easily yourself. And if electrical engineering isn't your bag, then you probably won't understand much of the science in the articles.
I'll note that one of the past threads here on the BA Forum pointed to a British aviation study that took aviation instruments out of the airplane and placed them on a lab bench. Then they took a mobile telephone and holding it fairly close to the instruments they could produce an effect in certain instances. That was proof enough for some here that mobile phones are dangerous. But it was laughably unscientific to any practical engineer. That's why I keep stressing that studies have to take place on a REAL COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT!!. Back when I paid attention to this field I was aware of all the qualified studies and not a single one of them could reproduce a problem. One I recall took an airplane that had been in a reported incident the day before where the pilots swore that a mobile phone used by a passenger in the cabin affected their instruments. They even knew what seat the passenger was in and what kind of phone they had. So engineers got rare access to the airplane for several hours to attempt to reproduce it. Using the same phone in the same seat, and all over the plane and with other phones they could not produce any effect on the instruments. This is one example out of many studies I've seen.