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Vario III GPS @ 470 mph

#4 tsutton

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 11:00 AM

What sort of plane? Private plane?

I couldn't get mine to work with that same phone.

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 11:12 AM

I wish

a McDonald Douglas MD-80, i've never had any luck in the past on Boeings and Airbus's, and had to leave CA running for around 20 mins before i got a lock!

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 11:15 AM

MD-80?

Scary!

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 11:32 AM

That meal looks vile.

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 11:35 AM

haha, thats slow. I clocked up 540mph with my vario III on tomtom on route to the states

i got a fix by just pressing the phone against the window

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 11:51 AM

jpwjpw, on Sep 24 2008, 12:35, said:

i got a fix by just pressing the phone against the window

I don't think it would go down well from the crew staff - they'd think you're a terrorist trying to blow off the window!

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 12:09 PM

Blimey you just have to look at some staff the wrong way and they think youre Terry Wrist.

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 12:33 PM

Slightly more impressive than my 124.8 MPH I recorded with CamerAware on the train from London to Liverpool a few months back. Still, my colleagues were mighty impressed! :wacko:

And I must agree that meal looks vile!

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 01:41 PM

vile?looks like someone has just thrown up next to your phone.now thats why i stopped having airplane meals!

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 01:51 PM

While flying from Canada to the UK, I was asked by the cabin crew to turn off my GPS for fear of interference with the plane's systems. After explaining that the device (a Garmin GPS, not a phone in this case) was a receiver only and did not transmit any data, they still insisted I turn it off.

Anyone know if this is true or not? Getting a strong signal was difficult without holding it to the window.

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 01:56 PM

Thox, on Sep 24 2008, 14:51, said:

You're right... but if they don't really know they are always gonna err on the side of caution!

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 01:56 PM

Heh, the meal tasted a lot better than it looked

And there should be no issue using a receiver on an aeroplane, any more than using an iPod. It may just have been them taking issue with dubious electronic kit and taking the failsafe option :/

As for the position, it did seem to see more satellites by the window, but in the end i left it on the tray (as you can see) and it burst into life!

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 05:44 PM

Heh,

I fly to Texas and then onto Cancun in December, I will see if I can beat your recorded speed!! We should get a league of top recorded speeds on CA going!! No road vehicle entries allowed of course for obvious safety reasons.

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 06:29 PM

I'll have to blag a lift in a BlackBird then!

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 06:54 PM

Paul (MVP), on Sep 24 2008, 14:56, said:

You're right... but if they don't really know they are always gonna err on the side of caution!

Virgin Atlantic have "Sat Nav's must not be turned on in flight" in the seat back magazine. But they do let you use phones and PDAs in "flight safe" mode, which obviously Mono's Vario III was :-)

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 07:00 PM

I wonder why they say that about Sat Navs? Odd...

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 08:29 PM

Paul (MVP), on Sep 24 2008, 20:00, said:

I wonder why they say that about Sat Navs? Odd...

Staff and crew don't know if they're safe or not, and don't want to test?

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 09:34 PM

I Flew on an MD-83 last week, was one of the more interesting (read: scary) flights I've had.

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 08:45 AM

On a number of occasions I've had my Vario III + TomTom state I was going > 600mph (usually somewhere around Scotland, and over water). Seeing as at the time I was driving around Surrey abiding by the speed limits, it is a bit odd. A reboot of the phone usually fixes it.

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 09:04 AM

Paul (MVP), on Sep 24 2008, 20:00, said:

I wonder why they say that about Sat Navs? Odd...

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Maybe because some Satnav devices have the option to get traffic updates, and so will have a GRPS module - which would fit into the "no mobile phones" category?