iPhone and SAA

Here's an interesting bit:

ATA airlines also detained a passenger for doing the same thing last year.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9796512-37.html

First of all, "airplane mode" doesn't appear to be a universally defined state of being by the FCC, FAA, the airlines or the mobile phone industry, and perhaps it should. Apple's Web page on the iPhone's airplane mode clearly states, "If you turn on airplane mode, the wireless features of iPhone are disabled, and if allowed by the aircraft operator and applicable laws and regulations (emphasis mine), you can continue to use the non-wireless features after takeoff.
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vodacom3g said:
In this case it's the same as driving 200Km/h on a open stretch of road WITH 200 other people in the car, including babies and children. By all means put your own life at risk, that's your personal choice. But not others. That's just criminally insane.

Have you ever thought that the reason why mobile transmitters are not affecting avionics is because most of them are turned off in the first place??

Sure, a few people forget their mobiles on and one or two retards intentionally leave it on to get off on how 'cool' they are. But, as Ajax pointed out, what's the effect going to be of a few hundred mobile devices trying to connect to the network when the plane is still a few thousand feet up?

I, for one, don't 'hate your guts'. But I do pity your ignorance.
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I also want to point out that a local airline (you guess) has switched to an electronic flight book. For each pilot. So there are two netbooks, with wi-fi and 3g used in the cockpit... To do important things to balance the a/c etc upfront. Determine some parameters. Saves a lot of papers up and down. And more accurate guessing.

So lots of speculation happening here...
 
There is only 3 reasons for a phone to be off in the plane.

1. Its rude to chat up your girlfriend when we stuck like sardines in a can
2. 100+ phones register and un-register plays havoc with the towers routing also causing the cell breathing to have something like an asthma attack :) You know that towers have up to 20Km range and if you hit a tower 15 Km in the air you going to be there just long enogh for the tower to say "Hi, nice to... OH CRAP you have allot of friends"
3 They can give you a cell "tower" in the plane (actually some airlines does) but they not going to make any money off that, they rather you use their nice expensive brick or internet that is so dam slow.
 
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