kopp@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Michael J Kopp) (12/16/90)
Folks: This is the story I've been told about the compatablity of airplanes and laptop computers: 1 - Providing that your laptop is properly RF Shielded you will not be in violation of the federal law concerning RF Emmitions within an aircraft. 2 - Unless you're a tele-genius you probably will not be able to x-mit air to ground without a radio-telephone to modem interface jack such as the ones used to connect cellular car phones to computer modems 3 - A friend of mine once related that his internal Hard Disk on his Macintosh Laptop was damaged by the Electro-Magnetic Field generated by the X-Ray Machine that they use at the airport security checkpoints 4 - My friend also told me that a US-Air Stewardess said that the best policy was to check with your airline before using the laptop on board the aircraft for each airlines internal policy on computer use inside their aircraft. These are the facts as they were presented to me and I present them to you as food for thought on this point of wether or not aircraft are compatable with your laptops.