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The turning off and stowing of electronics at take-off and landing is to reduce the number of potential projectiles in the cabin if the plane has to stop suddenly (aborted take off) or make an aggresive manouvre (go around).
Personnally I hope they never allow the use of mobile phone calls in aircraft - can you imagine having to sit beside some loud-mouth on his/her phone all the way to your next caribbean holiday??Comment
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Originally posted by Acme Thunderer View PostThe turning off and stowing of electronics at take-off and landing is to reduce the number of potential projectiles in the cabin if the plane has to stop suddenly (aborted take off) or make an aggresive manouvre (go around).
Personnally I hope they never allow the use of mobile phone calls in aircraft - can you imagine having to sit beside some loud-mouth on his/her phone all the way to your next caribbean holiday??
Did an overnight in NI this weekend flying Saturday and back on Sunday, 737-800. Both flights the usual turn off yer phone during take off and landing announcement, a couple of people around me were still texting or taking pics in full view of cabin crew who didn't bother to enforce this as we taxied out and took off.Comment
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostDid an overnight in NI this weekend flying Saturday and back on Sunday, 737-800. Both flights the usual turn off yer phone during take off and landing announcement, a couple of people around me were still texting or taking pics in full view of cabin crew who didn't bother to enforce this as we taxied out and took off.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Originally posted by doodab View PostYou're lucky to be alive man!Comment
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I have only a couple of hard and fast rules, but one of them is to listen to folk talking about electronics causing issues to 600 ton flying machines. For, if you are wrong, you don't just lose face, you lose all the other important parts too. Ask me a question about my field and I will back my answer 100%. I don't know about electronics interfering with avionics. I also happen to know there's an awful lot of tosh on t'internet. Sometimes, it's best just to go with the flow, and this is one of them times. IMO.Comment
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Originally posted by Old Hack View PostI have only a couple of hard and fast rules, but one of them is to listen to folk talking about electronics causing issues to 600 ton flying machines. For, if you are wrong, you don't just lose face, you lose all the other important parts too. Ask me a question about my field and I will back my answer 100%. I don't know about electronics interfering with avionics. I also happen to know there's an awful lot of tosh on t'internet. Sometimes, it's best just to go with the flow, and this is one of them times. IMO.Comment
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostI fly aeroplanes, I don't switch my phone off.Comment
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Originally posted by Old Hack View PostI don't and do.
Prangs >= driver fcking up.Comment
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I'm sure we've all seen instances of phones interfering with CRT monitors.
The weirdest one I came across was (true story) when we got a free ioniser from Viking - the stationery people.
Plugged it in under a desk in the office. This was probably early 90s.
One of the PCs started playing up - excel kept showing wrong calculations and corruptions. We were convinced it was a virus. Lots of scans and stuff.
Eventually (and it took weeks) we tried unplugging the ioniser. Excel behaved perfectly. Plugged it back in and it broke. Did it enough times to convince ourselves the ioniser was the issue. Binned it, and never had a problem again.Comment
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