Originally Posted by
Poxball
If I didn't know I hadn't written 20,000+ posts using another name, I'd think that was me posting.
Do I detect post-envy from a mere 200-odd poster?
I can wheel out
Globaliser if you want with his near-17,000 posts, but it doesn't really prove anything either.
Originally Posted by
Poxball
Just lots and lots of hard evidence accumulating to the contrary over the decades ....
"
No-one's died yet" is not hard evidence as to the safety of PEDs, but then you are on a losing streak trying to claim that it is - and what you need to understand it has nothing to do with the validity or otherwise of your argument. It's simply because one can't prove a negative, which is perhaps the biggest reason why no-one at the CAA has stuck their neck on the line to permit them.
Originally Posted by
Poxball
So you accept that the current level is safe (but with increasing disobedience, ignorance and devices the risk is building)?
Not at all. The question was to find out how much the risk increases with increasing numbers of devices. So if a single PED / active mobile phone (the question applies to both, though the answers may be different) carries with it a certain, perhaps insignificant but measurable, risk, is the risk of 900 devices equal to 900 x that risk, or much more, or much less? Basically, does the risk graph go in a straight line, or curve upwards, or flatten out?
Originally Posted by
Poxball
Your other point - how hard could it be to pack a few hundred each of iPads, kindles, iPhones, galaxys etc into a big plane and fly around powering them on and off together, different times etc etc. ie a proper scientific test to prove in the affirmative. As I keep saying, if it is a risk treat it properly like a risk.
But what difference would that make to you? Radio-emitting mobile phones are shown to be a risk; that's a fact. Enough of a risk that the CAA, in that PDF entitled "
Effects of Interference from Cellular Telephones on Aircraft Avionic Equipment" and linked by
SimonsMiles, determine that they should be kept off.
You don't care, though. Even though the regulator for this country have conducted "a proper scientific test" and concluded against the use of mobile phones, you do it anyway.
Come clean with us,
Poxball. You aren't interested in whether it's right or wrong; safe or dangerous. You simply want to use your phone whenever you want. PEDs, mobile phones, digital watches ... it doesn't matter to you.
What you want is for reality to fit around your whims.