Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Maybe the FAA Gadget Ban On Liftoff and Landing Isn't So Bad

Posted by timothy on from the you-have-your-opinion-I-have-mine dept.

First time accepted submitter oyenamit writes "Ars Technica reported a while back that FAA is going to reconsider the ban on use of electronic gadgets during take-off and landing. If this ban is revoked, you will be free to use your gizmos for an additional 30 minutes or so. Peter Bright has an interesting take on why lifting of the ban may not be such a good idea."

2 of 414 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Gahh by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Forget ever being able to sleep on a plane again, with 200 cell phones ringing and people playing annoying games and 100 laptop screens lighting up the cabin, just like in a movie theater, too many people going to be selfish.

    I SAID I CAN'T HEAR YOU! THE PLANE IS TAKING OFF RIGHT NOW! PLEASE SAY IT AGAIN LOUDER!

    Yeah, almost as bad as the fuckwits in restaurants and theaters.

    --

    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  2. Re:Attention by mccrew · · Score: 5, Funny

    Modern commercial passenger aircraft are barely flown by the pilot anyway.

    Old joke.

    In the future the cockpit will have a pilot and a dog. The pilot's job is to feed the dog, and the dog's job is to bite the pilot if he tries to touch anything.

    --
    Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.