Tommy,
I am sure it is airline dependant; I have recently flown with BA who allow the use of the pda / phone in flight safe mode, however Easyjet would not allow the use at all, recent experience with Virgin also did not allow there use during the flight. This leads me to something that really infuriates me…….use of digital cameras on aircraft; I really enjoy taking photos of the departure and landing, however on my recent trip back fro Washington the flight attendant gave me a right rollocking for producing my little kodak point and shoot whilst taxing out for take off. I duelly obeyed and switched it off and once airborne I asked her what evidence there was to prove that a Kodak Digi camera would interfere with the aircraft systems of a B747-400. Got the usual “company policy” answer so took it a little further and wrote to BA Technical Director and Training Manager, but have not had a reply back….I wish they would hurry up as I am flying to Vancouver on Sunday!!! Anyway we use cameras all the time in our Naval and Airforce aircraft (see here: http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=71136) with no ill affects to the systems, I am still to find any evidence to prove that a digital camera will cause an aircraft system to malfunction. Incidently I pointed out to the cabin crew that the in aircraft mobile phone located between Premium Economy and Business Class is always on receive mode, even during take off, landing and approach. If anyone out there can point me to a paper written by a credable source that proves digital cameras interfere with aircraft systems I will (as bart say’s) eat my shorts.
Rant over
Si
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