"Flight Mode" Does it really mean anything

Posted by Radimus on Oct 16, 2007 Share

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Technology and convergence and ‘un-hip’ people clash.  Everyone wants to be a lawyer and few know what the laws are. Then you find there are few laws and wide interpretation and a person may actually be guilty because of (mis)interpretation

ATA-Museum_thumb[1] A flight attendant for ATA Airlines recently asked a flier watching a movie midflight on the way to Hawaii to shut off his iPhone, not for the perfectly reasonable reason that the man was watching the inane Jennifer-Love Hewitt vehicle I Know What You Did Last Summer, but because you’re not allowed to use cell phones inflight. Casey, the iPhone user, told Consumerist that he tried several times to explain to the flight attendant that the iPhone was in “airplane mode,” with all the radios disabled. But the flight attendants did not accept that explanation, and continued to insist that FAA regulations prohibit talking on cell phones when the cabin door is closed, despite the fact that Casey wasn’t actually talking and the fact they were over the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Link: http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9796512-37.html

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  • If they told me to turn my MP3 player off, I would turn it off, then turn it back on when they had gone and put it in my pocket.
  • Same with many other airlines (e.g. Brusselsairlines). Basically, the issue is that cabin attendants have poor or zero technical background, whereas things like PDA's, portable computers and other small electronic appliances become more and more common in passengers' cabin luggage. Do not try to explain your PDA in offline mode is emitting zero energy: they couldn't understand what you mean. So, they just simplify their own job: anything with semiconductors inside is prohibited, that's all.
    Anyway, this is the rule nowadays for air passengers: everything is forbidden, except if it is compulsory.
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