Turn Off Your Cell Phones?
 

Ok, here's the big question! How many of you actually turn off your cell phones when the flight attendants ask? I know it's best to reduce the chances of electrical equipment/cell phone signals interference. But how many of you actually do it? And you turn off all electronics? Like your mp3 players/laptops?

I usually switch the cell phones to airplane mode. That should be enough right?

Welcome to Flyertalk. A simple search would have revealed that this topic has been covered many times
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...r-devices.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...nes-board.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/archive/t-920634.html

Also, this thread should have been in Travelbuzz or something similar. Omni is for topics that have nothing to do with travel.

And to answer your question: no. I mute it, that's it.

I think pretty much every topic has been discussed on FT already.

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Airplane mode or mute is not off. GSM phones cause more interfearance than CDMA ones do. At&t users probably have heard the buzz if they put their phone too close to a poorly sheilded speaker. I for one would rather that not happen on an air plane. You're not that important to be priviliged to leave your phone on.

After working in aviation maintenance for the past 20 years and seeing all of the flight systems tested on the ground, including many of the back up systems that most line pilots NEVER see in operation, I can't be bothered to turn off my cell phone unless I want to save the battery. I have watched trained avionics mechanics performing every single avionics test in the book while on a cell phone talking to an engineer about the systems. NEVER, NOT ONCE, has the cell phone EVER been a problem with the airplane.

Out of the several hundred flights I have been on with my cell phone turned on every single one of them landed at the correct airport. Go figure.

Which puts our more radiation? Your cell phone or the 50,000 watt cell tower across the street from the airport? Which would be a greater concern?

:cool:

The only reason I turn off my cell is that my (current) phone doesn't have an airplane mode, so leaving it on drains the battery faster as it continuously searches for a signal.

yeah, and if we're rehashing it we might as well do it where our posts count.

Moving over to TravelBuzz!.



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Cholula
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I have a friend like you. Rules are for everybody else. :td:

It's just amazing to me. If a FA breaks a company policy or makes up an FAR to accomplish something, or to get someone to comply pax go ballistic here on FT, yet here we can see pax are just doing what they please... nevermind the fact that it's a rule, they've just taken it upon themselves to "decide" it's okay to do what they want.

Its not the radiation that my concern would be, its EM interference produced by the mobile itself.

Inverse square law. It's quite possible yours puts out more if you're sitting near a control cable run.

Oh great, a plane mechanic that picks and chooses which regs to follow or ignore.

Just last week I asked two of them to sit up for landing (because really it's foolish to be lying down for landing) and they gave me all kinds of lip.... alright... fine, nevermind, just doing my job...

I was always told that rule was b/c it's harder to evacuate the plane when seats are reclined, not so much the angle for the person in the seat, but rather behind them.

How does the angle of a seat back impact the passenger actually in the seat?

(and BTW...i always keep my seat back in the upright position and my seatbelt is fastened and my luggage stowed).