Group, I happened to be flying on United Airlines this weekend and thought I'd run this topic by a few pilots. (I got a chance to speak with 4 pilots separately) The consensus from the UA pilots was:
* The stun guns have been thoroughly tested in the cockpit and had no effect on the avionics systems. * Type of stun guns( Taser only) would be the type that shoot the electrode through the air at the target. * They all preferred hand guns with bullets over the Tasers. They all claim that tests have been done unloading several rounds of bullets into the fuselage of an aircraft at critical altitudes without having severe affects. The field of my survey was small and only targeted a single airline so I don't know how this would correlate across the entire pilots union. Just thought I'd share this piece of info for what its worth. Regards, Jeff Collins ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
