Originally Posted by
freshairborne
I have deadheaded next to these ignorami, and they think it's pretty funny to blatantly leave their junk on. I just stay zipped unless there's some nasty weather at the other end, knowing that it most likely won't be a big deal.
When I'm flying the plane and will be doing a low-viz approach, however, I make the following PA: "Folks, it's amnesty time. For those of you who have your computers and phones, etc, not fully shut off, please do it now, no foul. Just do it. We are about to make a very electronics-intensive procedure, and given that I'm not a Boeing engineer nor test pilot, I would like full compliance with the federal law that says that these devices be off".
I think it's awesome you make this PA and I wish more pilots would do the same. And I also behave like you do when flying as pax. I won't bother saying anything if we're conducting an approach in VMC, but in IMC, I'm always ready to say something.
Not willing to risk a LOC or GS deviation during an autoland. That SQ 773 at MUC showed what the result could be - though in that case the deviation was due to lack of protection.