Originally Posted by
rjw242
Don't know why I bother making this point again, but if they posed even a 1 in 10 million chance of bringing down a plane, they would be banned.
Their use in-flight is banned.
Originally Posted by
planemechanic
Your "reports" are all unverifiable and unprovable
And from that you conclude that they are all wrong. That is an unreasonable conclusion based on the data. It is clear that the possibility of interference exists.
You have no evidence that I do anything other than fully comply with all required maintenance rules
The only evidence that I have of your behavior is that you admittedly ignore regulations with which you disagree.
Oops, notice the list is blank?
A mechanic should know better than that. We don't wait for a crash before applying risk-management procedure. We apply risk-management procedures in an attempt to prevent an incident or accident from happening.
1. There is no doubt that interference can, and sometimes does, occur. There are a steady stream of reports of such interference in the industry database that is setup for just that type of report, the mythbusters documented interference in their test, and many pilots, including myself, have seen it first hand.
2. When interference occurs, regardless of its source, it has the potential to cash an incident or accident.
3. Since cell-phone use is not required in flight, the safety action is to prohibit their use.