The New Mile-High Club
I'd like to use my cell in flight
Not exactly for phone calls, but for playing games, listening to music and so on. My phone has no airplane mode or flight mode, so it would be nice to be able to keep my phone on when in flight to utilize it for things other than phone calls and other data communications.
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I can see how this could definately be cool; everytime I've flown it would have been pretty cool to be able to text my grounded friends. But there will always be those 'people' who will find it necessary to scream into their phones, two seat down from you, about their latest visit to their gyno or who their partner was cheating on them with and AAAAAALL the gory details. You know they're out there, and its not like in the mall or on the bus where you can just move away, lol.
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Yeah I know what you mean. I remember taking a Greyhound once and the lady behind me was talking to someone about her yeast infection. Up until then I didnt know what a yeast infection was, well when I got off the bus not only did I know what it was, but I knew the status of hers in full detail. Definetly something I didnt want to know. LOL
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this ability would be awesome....... i fly all the time and i always have to turn my phone off and then when i get on the ground at my destination i turn my phone on and i have a bunch of messages and voicemails... most of the time ugent messages.... they even yell at me when i listen to music on a cd player....
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The deal with them yelling at you about listening to your CD player might have to do with the rule they have from a little before they leave the gate to when they're like a certain altitude or something, nobody is allowed to use anything electronic or even have their seat reclined at all. This is only because they want you to be paying attention during landing and takeoff when they figure most emergencies would happen. But if you're in the middle of a flight when they tell you to cut the music, find a different airline.
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It is interesting to me what people think is acceptable in certain situations. I would never bring a baby on an airplane but I don't have one so I can't really judge. Cell phones bring in a new dynamic to a flight the article implies would be unappreciated by most people on the plane. I don't think I would talk on the phone much but I know I would text message like crazy. Got an opinion? submitt a reply! 😁 and just for fun, what bothers you on a plane?
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Mauman said:It's not the talking on a cellphone that bugs me, it's the chance those pesky radio waves might send my flight into the side of a mountain that scares the all-living-hell out of me. If I see somebody trying to use their phone on a flight, I sw...
It is interesting to me what people think is acceptable in certain situations. I would never bring a baby on an airplane but I don't have one so I can't really judge. Cell phones bring in a new dynamic to a flight the article implies would be unappreciated by most people on the plane. I don't think I would talk on the phone much but I know I would text message like crazy. Got an opinion? submitt a reply! 😁 and just for fun, what bothers you on a plane?
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Talk about being an alarmist! The article even said it would take 4 or 5 people actually using their phones (therefore transmitting at full power), before there would even be a risk of the avionics getting off by a couple degrees. Not to mention in this post-9/11 world smacking a phone out of someone's hand might not be the best idea.
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jeremy said:I don't care what the article says. Unless the FAA tells me it's okay for passengers to use wireless phones on a plane, and that they still might wreak havoc with internal electronics, I'm smacking the phone out of anyone's hand. I'm not dying because of some fool who's trying to sneak in a call to his broker.
Talk about being an alarmist! The article even said it would take 4 or 5 people actually using their phones (therefore transmitting at full power), before there would even be a risk of the avionics getting off by a couple degrees. Not to mention in this post-9/11 world smacking a phone out of someone's hand might not be the best idea.
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Jeremy brought up an interesting point without even knowing it... In a post 9/11 world. There were calls from a cell phone on the plane that crashed in pennsylvania weren't there? That plane crashed. Coincidence? I think not.
As to whether it can be done safely, Air Force One has one of the most advanced communications systems of anything land, air or sea and it hasn't fallen from the sky.
Safety shouldn't/won't be the issue. The issue is do people really want to have to fly while people waste minutes? Imagine the stupid conversations people have multipled by 300 into the space of an airplane.
As to whether it can be done safely, Air Force One has one of the most advanced communications systems of anything land, air or sea and it hasn't fallen from the sky.
Safety shouldn't/won't be the issue. The issue is do people really want to have to fly while people waste minutes? Imagine the stupid conversations people have multipled by 300 into the space of an airplane.
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spartacus51 said:
The issue is do people really want to have to fly while people waste minutes? Imagine the stupid conversations people have multipled by 300 into the space of an airplane.
You are exactly right
The problem is when people rally behind "safety issues" in an effort to get the FAA to step into what should up to each individual airline. (Assuming we're talking about implementing picocell systems.) The government can't (although they do anyway) tell a private company they can't allow something like cell phones to be used by passengers who voluntarily bought a ticket when there wouldn't be a health or safety issue. Non-charter flights all have to be non-smoking, but there are numerous known he...
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