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I use my iPhone, HTC Incredible and 3G iPad (in airplanes modes) all the time on US flights. It's never been an issue. I think that if an inadvertently left-on

by brk 16y ago

I use my iPhone, HTC Incredible and 3G iPad (in airplanes modes) all the time on US flights. It's never been an issue. I think that if an inadvertently left-on cell phone could truly disrupt an airplane we'd see MUCH stricter enforcement. Otherwise you're implying a band of terrorists playing Angry Birds in all-radios-on mode stands a significant chance of downing an airliner...

jellicle 16y ago
I would guess the average passenger airplane flight has 50-100 cellphones on throughout the entire flight. If cell phone interference crashed planes, no plane would make it off the ground. I doubt there has been a passenger flight in the last ten years that took off without at least one cell phone operating in the cabin.
- maurycy 16y ago
  http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/unsafe-at-any-airspeed http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/unsafe-at-any-ai... tl;dr Cellphones and other electronics are more of a risk than you think
  - jellicle 16y ago
    If they were, planes would be crashing left and right. They aren't. Who are you going to believe, some engineers writing in a magazine or a massive experiment conducted over a period of 20 years involving every single passenger flight? Tens of millions of flights per year. Cell phones on every single one of them. No crashes due to cell phones. Cell phones do not cause unacceptable interference with airplanes. Q.E.D.
    - maurycy 16y ago
      Safety is operated by statistics, not boolean logic. Things are not either safe or unsafe. It all depends on trade-offs, and what risks we can accept in exchange of other values, such as comfort. The article mentionds, though, two worrying things such as the bias in investigations and ongoing GPS technology usage increase. I would also stress that it _might be not_ linear. Combined risk of few hundrends of turned on cell phones is not a mere multiplication of risk for a single device.

by brk 16y ago

jellicle 16y ago

I would guess the average passenger airplane flight has 50-100 cellphones on throughout the entire flight. If cell phone interference crashed planes, no plane would make it off the ground. I doubt there has been a passenger flight in the last ten years that took off without at least one cell phone operating in the cabin.

maurycy 16y ago
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/unsafe-at-any-airspeed http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/unsafe-at-any-ai... tl;dr Cellphones and other electronics are more of a risk than you think
- jellicle 16y ago
  If they were, planes would be crashing left and right. They aren't. Who are you going to believe, some engineers writing in a magazine or a massive experiment conducted over a period of 20 years involving every single passenger flight? Tens of millions of flights per year. Cell phones on every single one of them. No crashes due to cell phones. Cell phones do not cause unacceptable interference with airplanes. Q.E.D.
  - maurycy 16y ago
    Safety is operated by statistics, not boolean logic. Things are not either safe or unsafe. It all depends on trade-offs, and what risks we can accept in exchange of other values, such as comfort. The article mentionds, though, two worrying things such as the bias in investigations and ongoing GPS technology usage increase. I would also stress that it _might be not_ linear. Combined risk of few hundrends of turned on cell phones is not a mere multiplication of risk for a single device.