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Re:Sen. McCaskill to FAA Chief: Fix Electronic Device Rules ... by gnaffle on Thursday December 13, 2012 @01:12PM (#4917114)
Those devices are all transmitting at low power, usually to a WiFi / cell base station nearby. The issue here is when several devices are transmitting on high power at the same time. Also, a computer is a single shielded device with most data running on a single motherboard and a few cables. Avionics are well shielded, but the cables and antennas run the length of the airplane and there's a _lot_ of devices in a typical setup (ADF, VHF NAV/COM, GPS, TCAS/ADS-B to mention some, all of it duplicated for redundancy), so the chances of one of them being affected is a bit higher.

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