I have always been confused as to how my Kindle could possibly have interfered with a commercial aircraft’s navigation equipment, and attributed the instruction that I turn the device off to a desire that attendants simply not have to inquire as to which devices broadcast to cellular networks and which ones do not. The new rule will be a convenience.
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This’d be great, if I could ever afford to fly anywhere again!Report
Sure… but I want to know where Alec Baldwin goes to get his good name back?Report
None of our personal wireless devices can interfere with an aircraft in any way. It’s all utter nonsense.
Right up there with people carrying pocketknives on a plane being a threat.Report
This actually just makes me mad. What I hear when I read this news is:
“Oh yeah, it was never really dangerous to begin with. We just prevented you from turning them on because we could. And now that we’re announcing that we officially don’t think having your iPod or iPad on is dangerous, we’re going to make you wait another two months — through the travel-heavy Thanksgiving and Christmas season — before we let you turn them on.”Report
I never, ever, turn my devices off.
Phones go into airplane mode, that’s it.
As soon as the flight attendants sit down, the tablet or kindle or phone is out & I’m reading a books or taking pictures or whatnot.
I used to design commercial airlines, the amount of EM/RF energy needed to futz with an aircraft in any significant way is orders of magnitude greater than what all the devices on the plane could hope to produce. After all, a modern airliner has to be able to fly through all the stray EM/RF radiation associated with airports, search radars, weather radars, urban centers, and lightning storms. The idea that your little phone can cause trouble is utter horsepucky.Report
I used to design commercial airlines
Considering how many have gone bankrupt, I’d be hesitant to admit that. 😉Report
Errrr, airliners, not airlines. I worked for Boeing.Report
Soooo, about those seats you designed….Report
Yeah? You like those first class seats? Nice & comfy, eh?
Actually, I worked in structures & Engine Nacelles.
Although speaking of seats, did you know one of the requirements is that your seat is designed to be able to withstand the forces of a 15G impact (i.e. it must remain intact & in the seat track). You will, of course, be strawberry paste, but you will be (mostly) in your seat & the seat will be in it’s track.Report
It should make you mad.
What angers me is that I know people who feel like this is a great thing that has been given to them rather than angry that it was something prevented for so long for no reason.Report
That should not, however, get in the way of applauding the adoption of a rule that makes sense. Sort of like when same-sex marriage gets adopted, except this has to do with your iPad on the airplane instead of a fundamental human right.Report
“…except this has to do with your iPad on the airplane instead of a fundamental human right.”
Heh… I know some people who’d disagree with that distinction.Report
I have a hard time getting excited about no longer having to turn a toy off for ten minutes. (God forbid someone should have to sit quietly and reflect, or introduce himself to the person in the next seat.) And if this leads to cell phones being approved for airline flights, I can only hope that the rules for justifiable homicide are modified accordingly.Report
As the introverted person in the next seat… yes, god forbid. I mean, Mike Schilling introducing himself to me would be cool because Mike Schilling is cool. But most people are not as cool as Mike Schilling and should leave the asocial Trumwill alone.
And let me play with my damn gadgets.Report
Having said that, there were two reasons that this made me very mad:
(1) The ten minutes is just the wrong amount of time. Shorter than that and you sit and wait. Longer and you find something else to do. But ten minutes is that nagging in-between.
(2) It served no purpose. I didn’t like it before I found out how pointless it was, but it only became an issue for me once I did. It’s having to do something inconvenient (however mildly so) Just Because. Which I respond to even less favorably than I did when I was ten.Report
most people are not as cool as Mike Schilling
Jeez, you have a low opinion of humanity.Report