If cell phones have Airplane mode...

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Minerva

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This concern has absolutely zero to do with interference and the signal itself. It has everything to do with having your attention should an emergency arise during take off or landing.

Below 10K ft and close to an airport is statistically the most likely place for an emergency scenario in an airplane. Airports are to planes as intersections are to cars.

Everyone knows if the plane is going down you're fucked and people panic like ants on a picnic table running from five year old Tommy with his fischer price klondyke hammer so who cares?

But if someone wants to yack on a phone for two hours screaming over the 95dB in flight background noise then they should have their pos iphone shoved up their anal cavity horizontal (with video running, at least the result will have proper aspect!) and kicked so hard their head busts out the window.

People that talk on cells around others suck hardcore and should have their genitals expressed with a treadmill going 150mph with its belt done up with tar and chip aka 0000 grit sand paper.

Then you have the fucktards holding ipads high in the air to take pictures at concerts. Aim at the ipads with a paintball gun loaded with paintballs filled with doe in heat and buck cum, mixed up to it makes a smelly sticky booger that's harder to remove than the silly ass stickers that toshiba puts on their laptop wrist wrests.

Speaking of wrists, if you don't like this just slash your wrists with that ginsu knife that was used to castrate a badger that was skull fucking a friend's pit bull that attacked your neighbor's poodle last week.
 

SamQuint

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Everyone knows if the plane is going down you're fucked and people panic like ants on a picnic table running from five year old Tommy with his fischer price klondyke hammer so who cares?

But if someone wants to yack on a phone for two hours screaming over the 95dB in flight background noise then they should have their pos iphone shoved up their anal cavity horizontal (with video running, at least the result will have proper aspect!) and kicked so hard their head busts out the window.

People that talk on cells around others suck hardcore and should have their genitals expressed with a treadmill going 150mph with its belt done up with tar and chip aka 0000 grit sand paper.

Then you have the fucktards holding ipads high in the air to take pictures at concerts. Aim at the ipads with a paintball gun loaded with paintballs filled with doe in heat and buck cum, mixed up to it makes a smelly sticky booger that's harder to remove than the silly ass stickers that toshiba puts on their laptop wrist wrests.

Speaking of wrists, if you don't like this just slash your wrists with that ginsu knife that was used to castrate a badger that was skull fucking a friend's pit bull that attacked your neighbor's poodle last week.

10/10 Rant!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

AmdEmAll

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Aug 27, 2000
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You should see what happens if you try to take Pictures or Video out of the window on JetBlue.. Flight attendant went ape on my brother saying it was against the law and company policy.. what a load of crap.

Being an aircraft enthusiast is rough.. we are treated like terrorist.
 

SSSnail

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Nov 29, 2006
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Everyone knows if the plane is going down you're fucked and people panic like ants on a picnic table running from five year old Tommy with his fischer price klondyke hammer so who cares?

But if someone wants to yack on a phone for two hours screaming over the 95dB in flight background noise then they should have their pos iphone shoved up their anal cavity horizontal (with video running, at least the result will have proper aspect!) and kicked so hard their head busts out the window.

People that talk on cells around others suck hardcore and should have their genitals expressed with a treadmill going 150mph with its belt done up with tar and chip aka 0000 grit sand paper.

Then you have the fucktards holding ipads high in the air to take pictures at concerts. Aim at the ipads with a paintball gun loaded with paintballs filled with doe in heat and buck cum, mixed up to it makes a smelly sticky booger that's harder to remove than the silly ass stickers that toshiba puts on their laptop wrist wrests.

Speaking of wrists, if you don't like this just slash your wrists with that ginsu knife that was used to castrate a badger that was skull fucking a friend's pit bull that attacked your neighbor's poodle last week.
I'm sufficiently aroused.
 

Red Squirrel

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You should see what happens if you try to take Pictures or Video out of the window on JetBlue.. Flight attendant went ape on my brother saying it was against the law and company policy.. what a load of crap.

Being an aircraft enthusiast is rough.. we are treated like terrorist.

LOL wow, I must be a big time terrorist then, I got to go on a plane a few years back and probably took close to 200 pictures. :D
 

OutHouse

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Jun 5, 2000
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Why cannot use cell phones on airplanes?

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what exactly does airplane mode do?
 

Mark R

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Oct 9, 1999
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I'm sure they'll recognize the opportunity to put a micro-cell on the plane and charge people to use their devices.

Already being trialled by some airlines - they have an on-board nanocell, which acts as a roaming network and routes calls via a satellite uplink. Roaming charges are outrageous, apparently.
 

Dumac

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Dec 31, 2005
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Don't they allow cell phone in airplane mode at the same time they allow other electronic devices (handhelds, laptops, etc)?
 

Gintaras

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Dec 28, 2000
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I've never been able to get a good signal flying anyway

On 9-11-2001, signal was very good - all World heard cell phone conversation from hi-jacked airplane...

it was 12 years ago...so, what's the need to discuss about old technologies?
 

Eug

Lifer
Mar 11, 2000
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You should see what happens if you try to take Pictures or Video out of the window on JetBlue.. Flight attendant went ape on my brother saying it was against the law and company policy.. what a load of crap.

Being an aircraft enthusiast is rough.. we are treated like terrorist.
Heh. I got kicked out of an Apple Store just for taking pix of the glass staircase.
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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For the same reason your automobile's speedometer goes to 100 MPH or faster...even though the speed limit is MUCH less...it's just to fuck with you.
 

CZroe

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Jun 24, 2001
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On 9-11-2001, signal was very good - all World heard cell phone conversation from hi-jacked airplane...

it was 12 years ago...so, what's the need to discuss about old technologies?

A lot of those calls were made from the plane's built-in seat phones and others only worked because the plane was so low and not flying over the wilderness that most of a cross-country flight consists of.
 

Slew Foot

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Sep 22, 2005
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A lot of those calls were made from the plane's built-in seat phones and others only worked because the plane was so low and not flying over the wilderness that most of a cross-country flight consists of.

Or so they would like you to believe.....

Duh-duh-duuhhhhhhhhhhh.........