FAA to permit electronic devices during all flight phases
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Transmit the safety briefing to the sheeple's phones/tablets, complete with really crap modern pop music and an intoduction by Simon Cowbell?...they might actually watch it then
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Ian W,
No, I didn't report it because I was just the FO and accepted that it was the Captains's decision, and also figured that since the LOC deviations would occur every time the COM interference was heard on that older a/c model (a fairly large fleet), that it was already known about. That was backed up by the still existing ban on portable devices being used at critical phases of flight and transmitting devices at any stage. But, with hindsight, it may have been better to report it for the evidence reasons you cite.
My point was, anyway, that mobile phones do cause issues to navigation and perhaps other systems on 80s-90s airframes and still cause comms interference on current production models. And just because I haven't noticed any other ill-effects from phones on the newer aircraft, it doesn't eliminate them; there may be subtler effects in systems that don't have obvious indicators, like aircon temperature controls, fuel level indications, IRS drift rates, FADEC and so on. Who knows?
I remember one skipper who would confiscate the phone of anyone caught using it on board more than once and enter an incorrect PIN three times, handing the phone back at the end of the flight. It's not theft, and it didn't cause any damage, so he figured the offending pax couldn't come back with any complaint...
No, I didn't report it because I was just the FO and accepted that it was the Captains's decision, and also figured that since the LOC deviations would occur every time the COM interference was heard on that older a/c model (a fairly large fleet), that it was already known about. That was backed up by the still existing ban on portable devices being used at critical phases of flight and transmitting devices at any stage. But, with hindsight, it may have been better to report it for the evidence reasons you cite.
My point was, anyway, that mobile phones do cause issues to navigation and perhaps other systems on 80s-90s airframes and still cause comms interference on current production models. And just because I haven't noticed any other ill-effects from phones on the newer aircraft, it doesn't eliminate them; there may be subtler effects in systems that don't have obvious indicators, like aircon temperature controls, fuel level indications, IRS drift rates, FADEC and so on. Who knows?
I remember one skipper who would confiscate the phone of anyone caught using it on board more than once and enter an incorrect PIN three times, handing the phone back at the end of the flight. It's not theft, and it didn't cause any damage, so he figured the offending pax couldn't come back with any complaint...
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