The guy with the mobile phone
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Thread Drift or not, I'm not going to let someone imply on a public forum that smoking in the toilet isn't much of an issue when it very very thoroughly is! Sure, navigation interference might affect the aircraft and precipitate an accident, but fire in flight sure as hell will.
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Thread Drift or not, I'm not going to let someone imply on a public forum that smoking in the toilet isn't much of an issue when it very very thoroughly is! Sure, navigation interference might affect the aircraft and precipitate an accident, but fire in flight sure as hell will.
(was only pulling your leg
)I have much the same issues with some of the comments about alcoholism and pilots
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Smoking in Toilets
If someone has a cigarette in a toilet the detector may or may not go off, we are told. If the waste bin catches fire the detector will go off and crew will extinguish the fire with the appliances provided for that purpose. The first thing you might know about interference to aicraft systems caused by a mobile phone is when control is lost or you fly into a mountain or any other nasty event that might be caused by such devices. I'll settle for small fire of papers, if I have a choice!
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Smoking in toilets is illegal for very good reasons, using mobile phones is also illegal for very good reasons. Both are illegal, both are stupid, both pose risks to flight safety. I would expect a flight crew would rapidly disregard spurious guidance and disconnect any interfered with automated systems and fly the aircraft themselves. Might be less options with a raging fire though.
