Unrelated Laptop question

Thanks mate...it all helps.

Ta Jimbo

Yeah, I am well...very busy with all sorts of projects...as usual.....

Unlce is hanging in there with a few minor health issues...keeping busy...will see him tomorrow as he will be coming to our Xmas Party....some forumites are coming as well....should be a good get-together...lots of tucker and booze........................

I'd love to be there Willie.

Hope you all have fun and best wishes to all.

Cheers,

Jim and Stevo ( he still talks about you blokes).

Thanks Bob

As you might be aware I have more to worry about than where I am on the earth's surface. I have a 35hour flight schedule from the sticks to the Big Smoke in Africa and beyond and I have to take the laptop with me for info. Carrying all the stuff with me is posing a problem especially as movement is restricted but I will make a plan. Sometimes when flying over Central Aus I look out over the vast desert and wonder...have I been there? Is that a track to somewhere?

Bob,
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Quite rightly so!!

There have been many documented instances here in Australia of aircraft navigation systems being influenced by mobile phones, portable GPS, and other electronic devices.
Use of these devices can and will give false position information to the cockpit instruments. This is why we are told not to operate this equipment on board the aircraft.
Mobile phones and GPS are constantly transmitting a signal, in order to gain cell information or locality information. Most people are under the misconception that a mobile phone only transmits when in connection with another phone.This is incorrect.

Tuco - while mobile phones are constantly looking for a new cell to lock onto the same is NOT true about GPS. GPS are passive devices only they have no capacity to transmit anything. They simply listen for the signal from the various GPS satellites in orbit around the planet.

Tuco,
I think Patrol 22 is right. The GPS may have an oscillator but would emit no more interference than a GameBoy or CD player. The phone on the other hand is designed to transmit RF at pretty high levels in weak signal areas, so is a different kettle of fish.
The other aspect is that navigation is critical around airports but less so once the aircraft is at cruising altitude.

You know what happened to that bloke when asked "what do you have in that violin case?" and he said(jokingly) " A machine gun..what else"?...Hmmmm they took him to the cleaners....hahahaha

I have to worry about the steel knee prosthesis...have a letter from my Doc tho...so should be Ok ...........:o)

No one else has mentioned the battery........what does the scanner do to the battery?

It doesnt do anything to the battery but they make you take it out so they can see the contents of the laptop. They cannot scan through the battery so they remove it from the puter body

So I will have to carry a screwdriver with me as well..........sigh!!!!

mmm..not sure what sort of laptop you have but it has been a loooong time since I saw one that needed a screwdriver to remove the battery, Usually they just slide out when u push the relese button thingy (technical term...heheheheh)

Pioneer laptop...generic Aussie made from bits 'n pieces put together...ex Sydney...November 2002 build........still need a small phillips :o)

Willie, I hope you have a great trip and get the puter set up for the moving map and all. I have never had to remove the battery though I heard about it after 9/11. I have travellled Europe and Australia and a couple of Asian airports between with a laptop with the battery remaining in every time. US with the previous laptop and no battery removal either.

Has been the case in Kiwiland too Angler.

Willie, have a great Christmas - you and Judith, cheers mate.

I've travelled with laptops all over the world, including the post-9/11 paranoia that is the US, but I've never had to take out the battery. Be aware though that you often (including in Sydney) have to have the laptop ready for inspection as you approach customs, so don't bother to bury it deep in your luggage. Sometimes they ask you to switch it on to verify it's a laptop rather than a Toshiba-branded bomb.

I've heard that they ask people to remove the battery but it has never happend to me. The theory I heard was that they want to check that it is in fact a battery and not some form of explosive.

BEWARE about carrying a screwdriver, they will confiscate it as it can be construed as a weapon.

Cheers,

Jim.

Depends on the Airline and the airport, if you have to pull the battery. I have had to do it a few times, but lately I have never had to.. If you require a scewdriver, doubt you will have to pull it out mate. cheers
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Nah.........Ship's idle.......some one else is paying...gotta go though...one of those things......think I told you about it once...maybe :o)

Yeah I think you did.

When you going and for how long ?

End of January for 2 weeks

Have to be back in Melbourne by end of February so Eric can fit those sprinngs and shocks he has been promising for months......I really don't know,,, you can't find good tradewpoeple these days LOL

Well drive to Melbourne , leave car at my house , catch flight , come back , Eric picks you up in you new pimped out GQ lol

6" lift , 3" body lift 38" swampers lol

Yeah - good ending.