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To: zipper

Few, if any, commercial aircraft are equipped for voice satellite communications as its prohibitively expensive. Instead, we have ACARS which uses satellites, but only transmits data — that’s how their maintenance base in Paris got the error messages from the aircraft.


38 posted on 06/04/2009 2:09:08 PM PDT by ERJCaptain
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To: ERJCaptain
Few, if any, commercial aircraft are equipped for voice satellite communications as its prohibitively expensive.

Iridium rents satellite phones for $35 per week, calls are $0.99/min. Doesn't sound all that expensive, even retail.

113 posted on 06/04/2009 3:34:06 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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