FAA to pilots : No More Personal Wireless Devices in the Cockpit

If texting and driving is a bad idea, then why would someone think that texting and flying is a good idea?
 
MarkE said:
They crashed on approach. I think you were missing his sarcasm.
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I didn't mean for him, but for whoever wrote the article and brought it up. It's irrelevant. If you ate cereal for breakfast the morning you got in a car crash would that be relevant? I don't see how something that happened before takeoff and caused no issue from takeoff to nearly landing would be relevant.
 
tomokc said:
If texting and driving is a bad idea, then why would someone think that texting and flying is a good idea?
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Are you kidding me? Have you ever flown an airplane?

On another note, as long as I can have my camera.
 
I live blog from the cockpit. My generation's upbringing has informed me that everything I say, write, and do (sometimes even to a satisfactory standard) is not only news worthy, but something that the masses should feel entitled to read as it happens.
 
How do you text while flying? The phones don't work at altitude. This is what I dont undestand about the FAA allowing people to make calls in flight. I mean...how?
 
Louie1975 said:
How do you text while flying? The phones don't work at altitude. This is what I dont undestand about the FAA allowing people to make calls in flight. I mean...how?
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I've heard tat GA flying below 6000 and under 140kts can acquire a signal and hold for voice and text, as well as FB. Voice sometimes noisy.

For commercial ops I believe the signal will ride on the bandwidth of data if the plane is equipped. like an extender antenna used in buildings.
 
ComplexHiAv8r said:
I've heard tat GA flying below 6000 and under 140kts can acquire a signal and hold for voice and text, as well as FB. Voice sometimes noisy.

For commercial ops I believe the signal will ride on the bandwidth of data if the plane is equipped. like an extender antenna used in buildings.
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It's really interesting where you can get good coverage. 2500ft over LA. Nope. Probably just too many signals and it doesn't know what to do. 15,000 ft over southern UT desert. Crystal clear calls.
 
A-300F4-622R said:
You're probably for banning guns too.
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Meh, I've read the Second and Fourth Amendments (thanks to the liberal public school system and good parenting), and can't formulate an argument for that.

Beyond the utterly deplorable intransigence of the pro-gun crowd, of course.
 
For what it's worth, in my job, if they even see your cellphone on the counter at the sector, off or not it's a big no-no subject to disciplinary action... which since I live in Canuckistan, it means immediate beheading.

We do have a provision in our contract for an extra sharp guillotine, for humane reasons.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Meh, I've read the Second and Fourth Amendments (thanks to the liberal public school system and good parenting), and can't formulate an argument for that.

Beyond the utterly deplorable intransigence of the pro-gun crowd, of course.
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I picture a very South Park-esque episode...

"We have lots o' guns... but people keep getting shot!"
"We need MORE GUNS!!!"
"YEAAAAAaaaaa...."


All this being said, I own several firearms myself :)
 
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