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Cheers,
Ashar

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I totally agree ....... and you can't even open the window to chuck the phones and their owners out.

A friend of mine when faced with a journey from London to Glasgow sat next to a stockbroker type who's phone  almost never left his ear and when it did it rang and rang untill he answered it. 1st Politely asked the guy to turn his phone off as he was becomming an irritant. 2nd When the guy refused as he had buisness to conduct, picked up the phone, when it burst into life for the 50th time, answered it and told the guy on the other end that his buddy could be reached on a number from the nearest town, walked calmly to the lobby near the toilet, opened the window and threw the phone out.
When the guy protested and threatened legal action, the whole carriage shouted him down and refused his pleas for them to be witnesses to my friends hienous crime.

One up for affermative action 

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Fantastic Eno. I lIke it. Power to the people.

To the best of my knowledge using a cell phone on a petrol station forecourt is still illegal in the UK. This is for a very good reason. The cell phone transmissions mess up the electronics in the pumps. They are banned on our R/C model flying field for a similar reason & wiping out the memory on computerised radio transmitters is potentially dangerous. I realise that they must have fixed this problem on aircraft but it all comes down to money. The phone companies are not satisfied with the obscene profits they're making & are always on the lookout for ways of making more. I dread to think of the cost of some of these calls. All I can think of is that these annoying people are made of money.

I stand corrected although I believe this used to be the case. Interference was certainly the reason for them being banned from our flying field but that rule was introduced some years ago on the advice of the BMFA. I attended a lecture on the subject at the time. As with everything else, technology is improving all the time & I imagine the risk of the latest mobile phones interfering with sensitive electonic equipment is now either non-existent or too low to worry about.

PS. http://www.north-ayrshire.gov.uk/na/Trading.nsf/0/BCF615BF3F2F75FD80256EE70033FC...

While on this subject, I can remember going to air displays where spectators were requested not to bring mobile phones on the field as they could interfere with aircraft instruments. I noticed several people blatantly using their mobiles during the display. Makes me wonder about the human race sometimes.

Does cellphone transmissions do any harm? Nobody knows really. That's why the US Federal Communications Comissions currently are investigating the subject. And guess what: There's a very big chance you'll be allowed to use the cell phone in a few years. 

The reason for the cell-phone ban is that it was suspected that mobile phones could interfere with the navigation systems. But unless you stand with a 15yr old NMT phone right in the avionics bay(exaggeration  )...I'd say it's pretty safe.