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Please, please let's let the airlines keep this rule no matter how little it has to do with safety. If you get an honest answer from a pilot, they'll tell you t
by mgod 16y ago
Please, please let's let the airlines keep this rule no matter how little it has to do with safety. If you get an honest answer from a pilot, they'll tell you this was never covered in any flight school, and they usually leave their phone on, but can you imagine a flight where that business guy who just doesn't get it spends the whole time on flight talking on the phone?
- DrJokepu 16y agoConsider this: you're on an eight hours long flight and you need to make a really urgent call. There are no technical reasons why you wouldn't be able to do so, but it is forbidden because some people would abuse it and wouldn't be considerate to other passangers. It's not the phone that should be banned, it's being an inconsiderate prick that should be disallowed.
- sbarre 16y agoNeed to make a short urgent call? Get up, go to the bathroom (which is conveniently sized like a phone booth), make your call, take a piss while you're at it, go back to your seat.
- almost 16y agoBut until we figure out a way to ban being a prick I'll take the blanket phone ban. And what is this urgent call about anyway? Maybe to you it seems urgent and to me it just seems like you're being inconsiderate.
- cjg 16y agoPerhaps you are an eminent surgeon and someone is calling you for a life or death consult.