[QuadList] Using your Personal Quad Machine on a flight to NAB--Coming Soon--

[Ted Langdell]

Now that we have your attention in the cabin...

You may soon be able to use your personal electronic devices during almost all parts of commercial airline flights.  The FAA has changed the rules and is offering guidance to airlines about how they can enable usage.

Announced today:
http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=15254&cid=TW189&
"Passengers will eventually be able to read e-books, play games, and watch videos on their devices during all phases of flight, with very limited exceptions. Electronic items, books and magazines, must be held or put in the seat back pocket during the actual takeoff and landing roll. Cell phones should be in airplane mode or with cellular service disabled – i.e., no signal bars displayed—and cannot be used for voice communications based on FCC regulations that prohibit any airborne calls using cell phones.    If your air carrier provides Wi-Fi service during flight, you may use those services.  You can also continue to use short-range Bluetooth accessories, like wireless keyboards."

No mention was made of devices like video tape recorders, which create radio frequency energy as part of the recording process.

Several video tape engineers are likely to note that the use of the first generation of Quad videotape recorders aboard aircraft didn't seem to affect the avionics aboard, while several channels of conventional television were being transmitted from a folding antenna underneath the planes.

One might suggest that the idea of television being transmitted from an airplane circling overhead could come in handy during major regional disasters, when local television station studios or transmitter sites are damaged and off the air, cell service is overloaded or compromised and receiving satellite signals is impractical.

With today's technology, small prop planes could be used to implement the concept, with compact and efficient transmission plants, on-board video servers and ground-to-air links to provide live broadcast capability.  The same orbiting transmitter idea could also be used to provide emergency cell and data communications.

Happy Halloween.

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary
Skype: 	TedLangdell
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com



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