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First Cellphone Use On Airplane Given OK
s31523 writes "With over 1 billion cell phone users worldwide, and with so many business travelers, using the cell phone on the airplane has been a recent hot topic. Emirate airlines is announcing they will give the OK for cell phone use on their planes, making them the first airline to do so. The FCC and FAA still ban the use, but are working to determine safety implications, if any."
Sounds like good news for Bose; there are going to be a lot of people buying those noise-cancelling earphones.
Because if being crammed into coach wasn't bad enough, now you can be crammed into coach next to some asshat having a loud conversation on his phone for the entire flight. Sounds like a damn good time!
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the vast majority of people drive while on the phone, I don't think I'd want to be on a plane with a pilot who's on his cel phone the whole time.
Oh, you meant the passengers. I'll pass. I really don't need to have an entire flight filled with, "Guess where I'm at! Yeah, it's great! I can finally use my phone to call you from somewhere over [insert country/state/territory/ocean/whatever]. So how are things going? You get that urine problem taken care of."
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I hope one of the health and safety issues they look in to is the effect a cell phone has on a trachea when forcefully inserted by an enraged passenger tired of hearing the unfortunate cell user blather for five continuous hours...
... that I can play Snake on a plane now?
We have all be subjected to the loud mouth jackass before. You know, the one that answers his/her phone in a restaurant and basically yells so that everyone can see/hear how important they are. Now the one save place we have from these people is going away.
Perhaps we can convince the airlines to make the engine noise louder to drown them out.
To quote Yoda:
"If yakking on his phone for 5 hours he is, yak at you for 5 hours he will not."
I doubt it. After being readied by your pleasant trip through security where you begged for your insulin back, the comfort of flying with your knees crushed into the back of the seat in front of you while a kid kicks the back of your seat will sooth your troubled soul. And if that isn't enough you can eat your bag of pretzles (only on select flights) on your tiny tray. Then you can join the 10 person long line to the toilet only to get to the front in time to be ordered by the flight attendant to get back to the your seat because they'll be landing in 1 hour.
No, I see no passengers being bothered by this.
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Next problem: how to deal with a hundred foot tall cell tower sticking out of the top of the plane.
And the planes still managed to find their way to their destinations/target. Didn't seem to interfere with the navigation systems.
Well I hope they've at least solved the problem of autopilots deflating while in flight. Or, at the very least, I hope they've moved the air intake nozzle somewhere other than the belt buckle. After all, you can't smoke on planes anymore.
The last bastion of semi-peace and quiet is gone.
Assuming that your definition of peace and quiet includes high-volume white noise and even higher-volume crying babies.
When the President is flying coach on Delta, we'll take your point seriously.
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It occurs to me that cramming someone into a coach window seat and subjecting them to loud random phone calls for hours on end would qualify as torture.
"What do you get when you sit 120 people in seats designed for Erkel for 4 hours with 2 bathrooms, no smoking, available alcohol, and constant cell phone use?
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Some kind of shit about a terrorist threat
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I'd *much* rather listen to cellphone chatter than high-pitched informationless shrieking.
How do you know those babies arent trying to communicate something about the bad airline food, the moran pushing/kicking on the back of the seat, someone's B.O./fart wafting through the cabin, etc.
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I was looking for your comment - I would have posted the same thing (maybe in a bit less friendly tone). There are already enough things on planes that piss me off without the addition of 200 people loudly asking "Can you hear me now?" for the entire flight. In a similar vein, I have started a practice of turning in all unattended bags in the gate area to airport security. Most unattended bags are left by annoying people in the first place, so having those people miss their flight because they failed to heed the repeated warnings about leaving their bags unattended has a positive effect on my flight. ;)
Coming next summer: "Cellphones On A Plane!"
Does the TV talk to you alone?
I wish you would be allowed to sleep completely flat (as in a bunk like a ship would be good enough for me). Would be great for trans-atlantic flights. I fly quite frequently and changing hours, planes and means of transport make me kinda tired. The average flight is 18 hours, with delays 24 hours of eyes-wide-open travelling fun.
Most airlines provide this on long-hauls. It's called First Class.
I also wish they would allow you to have sex on an airplane. Might not be for all Slashdotters, but as a frequent member of the High Mile Club,...
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I have a cell phone. I am rarely without it. I have in the past carried up to three phones. That doesn't change my feeling that they should not be allowed in planes any more than smoking still is. As to the annoying people in the gate area who do not leave their bags unattended, I haven't figured out a way to get them left behind short of the rapture. If you know a way, post it here. Thanks!
It's all about distance.
You see on a landphone you are connected to the person you're talking to over a wire, no problem.
On a cell phone, you have to go thru the air first to the tower, and from there it goes thru a line to the other person. Because of that distance, you have to speak louder (c.f. shouting across the street). I'm assuming you are not the person being called, but in the presence of the cell phone user and hence your confusion about his volume. Rest assured on the other end his volume is just adequate.
*Basing this on a coworker who I've noted talks louder depending on how far away the person is he's calling...inside the same building, over the same internal lines. >.