WLAN Laptops
Flying close to 100 times a year (shorthaul), I am always intrigued after the Safety Belt sign switches off and the 'middle-managers' in life get their laptops out to look important. What I would like to know is when the safely announcement is made, the crew request that mobiles and other transmitter devices should be turned off. Now surely a laptop with WLAN is a transmitting device (it is when on the ground) and could interfere with comms and thus, Middle Manager Man would hardly switch off the device, let alone know where it is. Is it dangerous and if it is, do the airlines care?