Mobile phones
Not a pilot, but a frequent pax; Following on from the probs yesterday at LHR I was a) fortunate to get home at all from AMS, but b) stacked over London for over an hour and then trundled off to the @rse end of LHR while we waited 40 minutes for a gate to become free. This thread is not a whinge about the delays, but a question regardin mobs and aircraft 'systems'
During the majority of the time we were sitting waiting for a gate the engines were running and there were frequent announcements to try and stop some of the sh!theads (who think they know better than everyone else, or are simply far more important than the likes of me) from making calls on their mobs... I can understand the desire to let people know what is happening, but did they put anything at risk?
What is it about mobs that means they shouldn't be used once the aircraft is up'n'running? I cannot imagine that they transmit on a similar frequency to the aircraft comms systems otherwise you would have the problem anytime you were in range of ewither a mob or a TX station, so what is is?