SLF3 Quote "The bit I struggle with is when the wheels are firmly on the ground and you are taking a scenic tour of Heathrow and they still won't let you use a mobile phone.
Which aircraft system are they using that it might interfere with?"
Before 9/11 I was in the jump seat on the flight deck of a BA A320 for the landing into Berlin (TXL).
I had a headset on so that I could listen to the conversations between the pilots and ATC.
Just after we touched down and the pilot was talking to ATC as to where we would be parking the familiar sound of a mobile phone searching for a cell/signal broke through on the headsets.
The pilot had to ask three times for the taxy instructions to be repeated as the cell phone pulses were making the speech from ATC unintelligible.
I am sure you would agree that misunderstood/interrupted communications from ATC are not desirable at all.
Regards,
G-BPED