Originally Posted by paulthornton
I've never had a problem using hand-held Garmin on flights - I do ensure that I check first, of course.
One particularly nice Lufthansa captain, when I asked if it was OK, proceeded to give me the routing which meant I had the amusement of telling the friend I was travelling with things like "We'll be turning right in about .... now"
On the troubles of leaving the phone on, during my PPL flight test the tell tale "buzz buzz" noise of a GSM phone came over the headsets and a slightly red faced examiner rummaged in his bag and turned it off ...
haha mate, i've had worse! During my instrument rating test i was turning inbound on the NDB approach and my testing officer's phone rang....and he answered it and had a convo!
