Originally Posted by
110pgl
With respect, there is no reduction of risk. This is perhaps one of the silliest rules still left over from the '70s/'80s dark ages of "rules" for the sake of "safety".
No personal electronic device you have will affect ANY aircraft system.
There has been NO documented cases of any personal device EVER affecting ANY aircraft system. AFAIK the only know case was a laptop that supposedly interfered with an aircraft system. But Boeing, with the exact laptop, could not replicate the interference.
Remember, there was NEVER a FAA ban on using personal electronic devices such as phones during a flight. The airlines started it to try and force you to use the expensive air phone.
Do you really think they would risk the lives of all passengers on a flight if there was potential interference from having devices on or even in standby mode? And how would the flight attendants know if the devices were really off and not just merely put away.
(And not that it matters, but, I am a pilot.)
I hope not a commercial pilot. IIRC you have been quite vociferous on a number of occasions regarding airline safety procedures where your view of safety procedures and requirements is very much at odds with that of the safety regulators and indeed the professional pilots who frequent this board.
I find that sort of apparently haphazard approach to airline safety rather disconcerting, especially so from someone who actually flies the aircraft! The safety rules are mandated for a purpose, it is not for you nor I to ignore those safety rules because we may feel we know better than the regulators. It is not for us to choose which rules we will obey and those we will not.