People's mobiles on planes

[centurian]

Depends how old the plane is...

http://mythbustersresults.com/episode49

"and because of the possible problems that may arise by having many airborne cell phones "seeing" multiple cell phone towers,"

That's the bit that I thought was the main issue. Because you're so high up and moving so fast, it creates havoc for the phone network because you're hitting lots of cell towers and moving between them so quickly.

When your phone 'sees' more than one tower, then the network has to reserve your frequency across all the towers your phone can see. Combined with a ground speed of 600+mph, one phone call significantly reduces their network capacity in that area.

[MrMark]

Can a passenger jet plane do a loop? I suspect not

[BrilloPad]

FFS, how difficult is it for some people.

Pilot on last nights flight home had to ask people to stop turning on their phones whilst he was on final approach, as it was causing too much interference over his headset.

I guess the people who insist on leaving them on during flights are either;
1) so very important that it is essential that someone can get hold of them for the 10 mins the plane is on finals and then taxi-ing. or
2) tw@ts

Actually, I think I only needed the one option.

They should be thrown out without a parachute.

[NotAllThere]

Excellent

I liked it so much, I bought the t-shirt.