I flew into Gatwick on Friday evening and there was no sign of it from my side of the plane on approach.

I’ll keep an eye out for it on departure this week and see if I can grab a photograph, although I’m not sure exactly where its supposed to be?

Love the scheme on that R.J. Corman Challenger! A long way from home, wonder what they are up to in Paris! 😎

My own feeling is that it is more a case that it’s never been proven that they don’t interfere rather than proven that they do. However I do know a mobile phone can cause interference on radios, in much the same way that they can cause interference with say a stereo speaker. This is something I’ve heard myself when sitting on the flightdeck, and it can be distracting for the pilots at times of heavy workload, particularly when dealing with ATC.

I had the best example of this on a flight many many years ago on a FlyBe Dash 8 at Belfast City. We were sat at the end of the runway, and the Captain came on to ask everyone to check their mobiles because they were getting interference in their headsets.

As they gave this message over the PA, you could hear the tone that mobiles give when they interfere over electronics. Everyone definitly checked their phones that time!

I dont think that anyone would regard a camera as an electronic hazzard to flight controls, i suspect you might find that it is more to do with not having any loose objects during transitional flight phases – if the captain had to slam on the brakes at 100+mph and your camera flew out of your hand and smashed someones skull / nose / whatever….

Michael

That does form part of it, but the rules are there to prevent interference with flight systems. Its not flight controls that can get affected, but navigation and communication equipment during the more “tricky” stages of flight.

Thankfully my phone has a very well labelled flight safe mode that is easy to explain to crew who think I’m using my phone rather than the mp3 player within it. Obviously only used after we have taken off!

Nice stuff! Really need to get over to LHR this weekend when I’m darn sarf!

It is either an IAI 1125 Astra or a Gulfstream G100/150 depending on when it was built.

Obviously the engine cover is obscuring the last digit of the registration, I think it must be quite new as I have no recent record of an Astra starting with those numbers.

Great stuff Paul!

The amount of biz jets and especially Netjets in LBA over the weekend has been phenomenol, I can’t recall ever seeing quite so many over such a short period of time.

I guess its all been down to the Bollywood awards in Sheffield, its been impossible to walk around Leeds without being mobbed by fans lately 😀

As I’ve said to you on MSN Tom, great report!

AA gets a really bad rap at the moment, especially in the states, but overall they run a decent operation, and some of the staff there really make a great difference!

I hope you got your AAdvantage miles out of these flights!