Air Safety and Mobile Phones??
All,
as a student PPL I am rather interested in the CPL view of this!
On a BA flight frm LHR to GLW last week as soon as the a/c had touched the ground and entered the taxiway the number of mobile phones going off was ridiculous.
I was quite amazed that the flightcrew did not say anything and that they seemed to do was glare at the couple of idiots who can't seem to understand a few simple instructions regards phones.
So whats the scoop here ?? This is getting worse every flight and no one seems to bother too much!
It bothers me as I was always under the impression that this strictly a no no and I am kinda touchy about flight safety anyway as I can appreciate it more as a PPL!
One thing that did annoy me on last nights flight up was the ground crew at the top of the jetty telling everyone to switch off their phones with no explanation - I twigged that they were refueling but when I asked the a/c crew when onboard what the story was - they looked at me blankly and started looking for the tanker - 'oh yeah - we might be fuelling she says'!
Not making a big deal of this but I am interested in the views of you guys.
Regards