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Disruptions: How the F.A.A., Finally, Caught Up to an Always-On Society
“Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why.” Within minutes, the e-mails questioning the ban on electronics during takeoffs and landings started pouring into my in-box. The column received 257 comments and was shared thousands of times on social media. (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) Ещё...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
IMO, the problem is not with the device, it is the liveware holder with the IQ and attention span of a boiled carrot.
Well, the interference side of it be danged. Takeoff and landing are the most dangerous part of flight and people need to listen to the safety briefing whether you have never heard it or have heard it 1000 times. Were it not so, then why are the FA's buckled in. They certainly don't spiel all that info to hear their head rattle. Past that, read and compute to your heart's content. My rant for today.
Having to constantly have your head in your electronic gadget is the equivalent of having your head up yor ass.
LMAO! Sadly it is "True" and what a sad state it is.
jacksie Wallace ..jacksie....keeps the prudes happy
Whether a device is in “airplane mode” at any altitude is irrelevant to sociopathic behavior, as exhibited by the doofus who sat in the middle seat of a row of three of us and played a shoot-em-up game on his phone using the phone speaker. After a blessedly brief time, the flight attendant told him to either mute the phone or use earphones, which he apparently did not have. Otherwise the several of us within earshot might have endangered the flight by pushing him out the cabin door at 10,000 feet.
* For smaller crafts: Electronics such as ipads and such for foreflight and so forth should only be used by the pilots.
* For smaller crafts: Electronics such as ipads and such for foreflight and so forth should only be used by the pilots.
Come'on people...the rule is only for when the aircraft is below 10,000 feet (except actual cell phone calls) ... it is not that bad. Your talking about maybe 1/4 of the flight unless you routinely fly short hops that are under an hour.
Unless you have some fancy satellite phone, you will not receive signal on the flight anyway so just pull up your laptop and work offline.
The only remaining argument would be the ability to use the phone while taxing which would be convenient but again for the purpose of the multitude of ADD flies out there that would be reading instead of paying attention to what is going on around them...it is for safety more than interference.
If you can't pause for a brief amount of time (~30-45 minutes) during your flight then bone up and start paying for a private charter where the PIC or certificate holder can authorize such use.
Unless you have some fancy satellite phone, you will not receive signal on the flight anyway so just pull up your laptop and work offline.
The only remaining argument would be the ability to use the phone while taxing which would be convenient but again for the purpose of the multitude of ADD flies out there that would be reading instead of paying attention to what is going on around them...it is for safety more than interference.
If you can't pause for a brief amount of time (~30-45 minutes) during your flight then bone up and start paying for a private charter where the PIC or certificate holder can authorize such use.