Mobile phone flight mode
Folks,
whats it the general consensus on switching ones phone to flight mode whilst aboard an aircraft? Reason for asking - I was returning to my native sligo in the northwest of ireland on a pleasant flight and noticed a rather nice sunset illuminating the clouds as we started our initial decent. I had my phone in my hand luggage and decided to test out my new fangled 3.2 megapixel camera. I had switched the phone to flightmode as I boarded, however when I took the snap a pleasant member of CC told me that I shouldn't have the phone on. I complied immediatley and just mentioned that I thought it was ok as I had the phone in flightmode. The Lady looked at me blankly and said it had to be off full stop (in a nice way!). I didn't argue, but just wanted to know what the overall opinion on this is?
Thanks in advance.