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Old Aug 24, 2004 | 5:37 pm
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isn't that what we are talking here.

Originally Posted by lairdb
Myth.

The FAA doesn't care, and several airlines explicitly permit use of GPS in-flight (Alaska, among others, IIRC.)

However, as an intentional transmitter, a Bluetooth-based GPS mdoule would be against the rules.

A BT GPS receiver, wouldn't it be transmitting the GPS coordinates to some other device that it has made a BT connection with?
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