Freecom Technologies FHD-xx manual Safe use of your external hard drive aboard an aircraft

Safe use of external hard drive, components and accessories

Safe use of your external hard drive aboard an aircraft

Warning !

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Always request and obtain the prior consent and approval of an authorized airline representa- tive before using your external hard drive aboard an aircraft. Failure to obtain the prior consent and approval from the airline may result in your unwittingly interfering with aviation equipment onboard, leading to an accident and thereby resulting in the possibility of death or serious physical injury.

Usage restrictions

Never incorporate this Freecom external hard drive into a system that will be used to control the following critical equipment:

a.Equipment directly linked to the protection of human life, including:

•Medical monitoring equipment, life support systems and equipment used in hospital operating rooms.

•Exhaust systems used for venting poisonous gases and smoke.

•Equipment used to perform life-saving functions mandated by law, (e.g., as required for fire-fighting under the Canadian Fire Services Act).

•Other equipment comparable to that in the examples cited above.

b.Equipment directly linked to the protection of human safety or affecting the performance of a vital public safety function, such as:

•Traffic control equipment for air, railroad, highway and marine transportation.

•Equipment used in atomic power plants.

•Other equipment comparable to that in the examples cited above.

•The control of such critical equipment requires the use of specially designed devices that employ redundant, fail-safe circuitry.

•This external hard drive has not been designed for those types of uses.