FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Is it REALLY that bad to pick-up emails on landing?
Old May 29, 2011 | 12:54 pm
  #128  
LondonElite
Suspended
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Canada, USA, Europe
Programs: UA 1K
Posts: 31,439
Originally Posted by DWFI
I am still FIRMLY of the opinion that (civil) wireless devices can cause zero harm to aircraft. I turn my phone into airplane mode for the duration of the flight but I do not turn it off. If Emirates ICE can be running, so can my phone. Until someone proves to me otherwise, no amount of argument can change my mind.
I will go a step further. Please show me a published, peer-reviewed, scientific journal that set out, unequivocally, that mobile phones and related devices, if left switched on, in any way interfere with an aircraft's systems or ability to operate in the intended manner.
LondonElite is offline