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Are you more interested in getting a cheap flashable router than in air safety?

Yes, it's more important that 299m Americans who don't live beside an airport be able to use that spectrum than some small number of passengers per year that may or may not die in a possible crash that might be caused by wifi interference.

There are so many lower-hanging fruit for safety that this is a non-issue.

The 299m Americans who don't live near an airport will be able to continue using that spectrum after this goes into affect.

They will not be able to do that with software of their own choice.

They will as long as it doesn't have a programmable radio.

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