Originally Posted by
GUWonder
By the way, there's an unknown risk involving invaders from outer space beaming (a la Star Trek) into the cockpit to take over the plane. Better urge caution, at least following your line of reasoning.
No. You either don't understand my line of reasoning, or you choose not to believe it has a factual basis. Your belittling of the concept betrays your lack of understanding of it.
As I said long ago, there is
anecdotal evidence that stray EMI messes up instruments. And there is
systematic evidence suggesting that it
could be a problem. Not that it
is a problem, mind you. But not that it
can't possibly be one, either.
Add to that the well-documented tendency of large-scale software systems to respond to untested combinations of stimuli in unexpected ways, and you have a recipe for chaos.
I think it would be prudent to carry a means of detecting and locating sources of RF emission on airliners. You are free to disagree, but it really doesn't bolster your argument to denigrate the opinions of others.