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FAA Pushed To Review Ban On Electronics
First time accepted submitter sfm writes "Ever tangle with a grumpy flight attendant over turning off your Kindle Fire before takeoff? This may change if the FAA reviews their policy for these devices. The FAA is under extreme pressure to either change the rules or give a good reason to keep them in place. From the article: 'According to people who work with an industry working group that the Federal Aviation Administration set up last year to study the use of portable electronics on planes, the agency hopes to announce by the end of this year that it will relax the rules for reading devices during takeoff and landing. The change would not include cellphones.'"
You are never going to get people to pay attention to those instructions. That's human nature.
"Hi kids! I'm Fuzzy, the natural selection wolf! Obey my instructions and you just might make it out alive!"
I was on a flight just coming in to land and the guy next to me answered his ringing phone - I almost grabbed it off him and stamped on it but as I'm British I would rather the plane went out of control and die in a fireball than to make a fuss. Other people tutted at him.
However nothing happened and here I am typing this today!
I vaguely recall mythbusters doing a test to see if any of these devices actually caused any interference.
The FAA(I think it was?) wouldn't let them fly while doing it, but on the ground, they received absolutely none.
This is another example of old farts going "In my day, this is how we did it!" and not moving forward with time.