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You Don't Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes

• Baljhin 3y ago
  > The real reason is this: Airlines think people won’t stop yapping on their cell phones during flights, leading to more instances of “air rage.” That’s why regulators continue to ban phone calls and data usage on planes: it’s just plain annoying. Good. Let's keep the restrictions in place. Wish we could do an outright ban/poweroff.
• hitpointdrew 3y ago
  > there’s limited evidence that a phone has ever interfered with a plane’s electrical systems. Very much expected. Not sure why anyone ever bought into the idea that a phone could interfere with the plane. You really think the airlines would risk some random asshole not following directions that could fuck up their electrical systems? If that was possible they wouldn't have allow phones on the plane at all. No airline would have taken that risk.