Scanner's Ok

[bcd396towner]

I asked the hostess on my Southwest Airlines flight from LA to Las Vegas if I can turn on my 396T and I told here I want see if I can follow are flight and I told her I have head phone's Bose audio Quiet Comfort 3. And she said it's ok as long as I turn it off before landing.

I told her I thought they were prohibted while on and she said no u can listen to it as long as u can't transmit.

It was really neat I picked up Las vegas Pd from 22,000 feet up and LA center excellant!

Has anyone else tried listening while on an airline Flight?

Make sure u have head phone's or good one's like my bose quiet comfort3

 

[scanrrman]

If it is prohibited, I doubt she has the authority to override such regulation. But you've got some kind of scapegoat, HAHaha! Nor the captain for that matter I would think. He didn't sign the check that paid for that aircraft.

 

[N4JNW]

Well, in all honesty, I never quite understood what the big deal was with scanners on an airline anyway. A scanner is just like any other electonic device.. If they're so prohibited, why do you see businessmen with laptops, typing during the flight? I've been on MANY flights where there were numerous laptops in the cabin.

I KNOW a laptop gives off more RF than a scanner would... C'mon..

What about walkman's and MP3 players? Those are floating around all over airlines too, and no one seems to care..

So why do folks think scanners are denied? I mean, maybe I'm just missing it here, but last time I checked, a scanner dosen't throw out as much RF hash as a laptop. I know after a point in the flight, those are allowed, don't matter what the rules say, others seems to be breaking them for the length of the flight..

I won't lie, I've brought my scanner on airlines.. Had a white set of earbuds, looked like I had an ipod, but had a Pro-99 in my hoodie pocket. Couldn't hear much, the pilot kept jumping from freq. to freq. and I couldn't keep up with him. I just had the departure airport and the arrival airport programmed in. That's about all I got.

 

[shaft]

Ive carried mine on numerous times. Just kept it to my side with my ear phones plugged in. Im more worried about others who dont know any better seeing and causing unneeded attention than anything else.

Next time you fly, check the flight route you are taking and program all the centers you will fly thru and you should be able to track your flight pretty well. Also if you pay attention you can grab the freqs when the controller hands your flight off to the next center.

 

[zz0468]

Well, in all honesty, I never quite understood what the big deal was with scanners on an airline anyway. A scanner is just like any other electonic device.. If they're so prohibited, why do you see businessmen with laptops, typing during the flight? I've been on MANY flights where there were numerous laptops in the cabin.

I KNOW a laptop gives off more RF than a scanner would... C'mon..

What about walkman's and MP3 players? Those are floating around all over airlines too, and no one seems to care..

So why do folks think scanners are denied? I mean, maybe I'm just missing it here, but last time I checked, a scanner dosen't throw out as much RF hash as a laptop. I know after a point in the flight, those are allowed, don't matter what the rules say, others seems to be breaking them for the length of the flight..

I won't lie, I've brought my scanner on airlines.. Had a white set of earbuds, looked like I had an ipod, but had a Pro-99 in my hoodie pocket. Couldn't hear much, the pilot kept jumping from freq. to freq. and I couldn't keep up with him. I just had the departure airport and the arrival airport programmed in. That's about all I got.

The local oscillator of a scanner is considerably more coherent than the broadband noise and other crud coming from a laptop. Maybe this will put it into perspective: The cable companies have the capability to police their systems for theft of services based on looking at the local oscillator signals emanating from your living room. It is, in essence, a little transmitter.

Imagine the LO from your scanner falling on the same frequency as the glide slope or localizer receiver . Having that needle read one dot off from it really is could bend the airplane, if you catch my drift.

I am a pilot. I've owned my own airplane. And I've taken non-certified radio gear up and seen what it can do. I wouldn't operate a scanner on an airliner, and when they say "please turn your laptops and personal electronic devices off" before landing, I do.

 

[bcd396towner]

The local oscillator of a scanner is considerably more coherent than the broadband noise and other crud coming from a laptop. Maybe this will put it into perspective: The cable companies have the capability to police their systems for theft of services based on looking at the local oscillator signals emanating from your living room. It is, in essence, a little transmitter.

Imagine the LO from your scanner falling on the same frequency as the glide slope or localizer receiver . Having that needle read one dot off from it really is could bend the airplane, if you catch my drift.

I am a pilot. I've owned my own airplane. And I've taken non-certified radio gear up and seen what it can do. I wouldn't operate a scanner on an airliner, and when they say "please turn your laptops and personal electronic devices off" before landing, I do.

Try it in ur Cessna or whatever u own If I can use It in an airline Im sure my dad will let me use it when we go flying he's a private pilot to out of Van Nuy's Airport CA.

He is going to join a club 8-ball flying club search it in google and check out there site really good deal's to get in.

He already said he'll let me use it, He hasn't flown in ten year's cause of DWP work, but he passed his medical and Commercial license and is studying his chart's for update's on the van nuys class c airspace.

Im positive he'll let me try. Use urs the next time u go up

By the way about the Navaids I do have the Van Nuys Vortac and ILS localizer's programmed in. My dad know's it's just a scanner not a transmitter.

He own's a ICOM portable Transceiver and he is going to test out and when he goe's flying all he has to do is go up with a instructor to renew his license

He know's I turn it off before landing and takeoff that's what I do on airline's

 

[shaft]

Maybe this will put it into perspective: The cable companies have the capability to police their systems for theft of services based on looking at the local oscillator signals emanating from your living room. It is, in essence, a little transmitter.

This is not how they check for theft of service. Where did you get this info from?

 

[N4JNW]

You can legally operate ham radio equipment from a Cessna, providing it is a privately owned aircraft...

The kicker is, an airline, is NOT owned by any of your friends or family... YOU are merely a customer.

IF the pilot/crew/whoever tell you it's ok to scan in flight, but to turn it off before landing, then you're in the green I guess.. I don't know.. I'll leave this for the other thread about it.