Originally Posted by
Washington DC
There seems to be almost-universal condemnation of these "twits" amongst the community here - I presume this is the same for the twits who use their cameras when taking off & landing, or is that different in some way?
They shouldn't be using standalone cameras either, but at least standalone cameras don't intentionally transmit powerful RF signals.
Anyone who's using a camera built into a mobile phone clearly doesn't understand the instruction to turn the phone to flight safe mode and then switch it off - or thinks themselves above such an instruction.
Originally Posted by
Rambuster
I had the privilege recently to spend an hour in an LH A380 flight simulator in FRA and was instructed by their most senior check captain. He clearly mentioned that technically there is no reason to prohibit use of phones. There is no impact whatsoever to the aircraft.
So this one guy knows more about this issue than the CAA, FAA, Boeing, Airbus, IATA, etc?