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You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes (gizmodo.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (25 children)

Uneducated writers thinking using phone during flight is the same thing as using phone on the ground. It's not.

Phones won't interfere with sensors and stuff on airplane. That much is true. However pilots need to communicate with all kinds of airport staff over FM radio and there, since it's an analogue signal, phones can cause that familiar disruption. It won't destroy equipment, but you will annoy pilots and might prolong departure time. Same thing when landing, you are coming from no signal zone and all of the sudden 100 phones starts talking at the same time when pilot is receiving instructions from the airport.

This is why you can talk during flight, but not takeoff.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (9 children)

That disruption is from a 2G/GSM handset. Those networks were turned off a decade ago.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Pilot here. Still on the A320 series it's obligatory to turn off the electrical devices for low visibility approaches (ILS Cat2/3) as aircraft's navigational systems are not protected (at least certified) against RF interference.

Stupid article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

General observation.

As people lose more and more real freedoms [lower real wages, more crowded roads, small retail stores swallowed up by mega-corps] they cling to false freedoms. They will keep those phones on, because it's their right to, dammit!