Why do the airlines ask you to turn off your celll phones when you are on a plane?

Question

I can understand wanting to reduce the noise in a plane, but there is absolutely no problem with sending SMS messages or checking your email on your Blackberry.

For the airline to say that using your phone on the plane effects the instruments and the communication on the plane is an absolute lie. There should be a class action suit against each Airline that makes such a lie.

Do you actually think if a single cell phone could affect the communications and instruments of airplanes that they would allow a cell phone within 10 miles of an airport? Absolutely not. In this day and age of powertripping TSA and others, it is nothing more than reminding you who is the boss on a plane. No phones on during a plane, until they learn to charge you for its use. At the moment they have not figured this out yet, so no phone for free.

Answer 1

Wow. People so stupid shouldn't be allowed near technology.

You call a fact a lie, just because you want it so.

FACT: Cell phones and wireless devices send out a continuous signal looking for cell towers.

FACT: The aluminum tube you're riding in allows that signal to reflect and concentrate within the fuselage. That, multiplied by dozens of other wireless devices will absolutely affect electronic equipment onboard.

The onboard, inflight phones have the signal routed through an external antenna, outside of the aircraft, something your crackberry doesn't do.

If you're going to reference that idiotic Mythbusters episode, their testing methodology had more holes than swiss cheese.

Answer 2

Just so you know…

Try placing your cellular phone close to an FM radio when listening to your favorite tune, and then call it from another phone…

What did you hear before your phone rang? You most likely heard a series of staccato tones audible through the radio speaker.

These tones represent a burst of data your phone is receiving or sending to the cell network; additionally you will hear these tones periodically when your phone checks in with or jumps to the nearest tower to let the system know where you are within the network coverage area.

This same tone will occur through the audio portion of one of many aircraft communication and navigation radios every time your cell phone rings, or when it jumps to a new tower. These tones are an annoyance and are a distraction to the pilots when they are attempting to communicate with control towers, area control centers, or when they are identifying morse coded navigation aids.

Multiply this by every one who has left their phone on, and you’ll have a problem: Terminal Controller: “Airliner 123, can you accept vectors for the short gate ILS?” Mean while splashed over top of that transmission is: “BUUUUUH, BUH--BUH--BUH--BUH--BUH--BUH" as your cell phone switches to another cell tower. Pilot Response: “Terminal, say again there was interference over the radio” “BUUUUUH, BUH--BUH--BUH--BUH--BUH--BUH"

Your class action lawsuit would come in handy for every pilot who came back into the cabin to shove every ones cell phone up their backside. And besides, if the airlines wanted to make more money from you they would just charge you for the use of the lavatory.

Answer 3

Even if the airline didn't care about cell phone usage, by law they are supposed to say that. If you ever listen they say something like "And due to FAA regulations, you must keep your cell phone off at all times, except when taxiing to or from the gate."

Answer 4

dude DO YOU KNOW HOW TO READ???

if so READ THE MANUAL of your Blackberry phone.

it is for your safety not just you but for everybody inside the plane.

airline regulations are there to protect the passengers.

one accident and your DEAD.

if there is accident and when they investigate what cause the accident .... one passenger was using a phone and cause a miss communication with pilots and the tower. so two plane to collide and killed all the passengers in both plane. and the families of those people in the plane with you and in the other plane will hunt your family down.

Answer 5

To quote you; " Do you actually think if a single cell phone could affect the communications and instruments of airplanes"

Well, see that's the trick. Show me anyplace where there would be only just one person who would want to use their cell phone.

I'm kind of glad cell phoen use is banned on flights anyways. Who wants to hear a plane full of people yacking on their cell phones for hours and hours?

Do what people did when there wasn't any cell phones. Wait til you land. People were able to survive without them years ago and I'm sure they still can today.

Answer 6

If you actually used a phone in-flight (unless it was airplane mode), think of how many towers you would actually be lighting up. Also, think what's happening at the ground. With the growing crowd of cellphone users, emergency agencies like the police are finding it hard to use their radios.

1. If you were to use your cellphone and it indeed caused a crash, it would rule out a potential candidate, the cell phone.
2. If you were going to crash and you were on the cellphone, you wouldn't be as "focused".

but whatever.....

Answer 7

Dude, you need to relax. It isn't going to kill you to not use your phone for a few hours. Sheesshhh.....