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Re: Can i use my scanner on a domestic flight?

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:12 am
by robbage
I used my VX-3R hand-held to and from Adelaide last week (receive only!) No eyebrows were raised. Didn't hear much either.

Re: Can i use my scanner on a domestic flight?

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:05 pm
by numloxx
robbage wrote:I used my VX-3R hand-held to and from Adelaide last week (receive only!) No eyebrows were raised. Didn't hear much either.
That's because it's Adelaide :)

Re: Can i use my scanner on a domestic flight?

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:14 pm
by Zebedee
Nafenn wrote:i think the basics of it is you can have a Receiver, but not a Tranceiver.
Further to this, it was part of the Qantas "safety briefing" on my PER-MEL flight the other day. "Electronic entertainment devices" can be used but "radio transmitters of any kind including mobile phones are not permitted to be used on this aircraft" was (from memory) the exact words used ;)

Re: Can i use my scanner on a domestic flight?

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:11 pm
by Tyranus
...you listened to the safety briefing??...and can actually remember it...hehe ok I admit I used to be able to do the whole thing but then I was flying home every half term and end of term break!