What happens if no one turns on airplane mode on a full commercial flight?
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Your battery dies much faster because your phone is constantly searching for a signal every few seconds. Happens to me when I travel for work
Your battery dies much faster because your phone is constantly searching for a signal every few seconds. Happens to me when I travel for work
Nothing nowadays. Back in the 2000s and earlier it could interfere with the radio messages. People of a certain age will remember a kind of beep beep thud sound if a phone was too near some speakers.
remember 20 years ago when you got a text, and you were listening to the radio and it would go “ba nuh ba nuh ba nuh baaa” slightly?
well if you bring your nokia from 1999 on the flight, it might do the same thing.
Nothing nowadays. Back in the 2000s and earlier it could interfere with the radio messages. People of a certain age will remember a kind of beep beep thud sound if a phone was too near some speakers.
remember 20 years ago when you got a text, and you were listening to the radio and it would go “ba nuh ba nuh ba nuh baaa” slightly?
well if you bring your nokia from 1999 on the flight, it might do the same thing.
I see lots of folks saying it doesn’t matter much anymore but I gotta think they can still tell, so it must still create some noise/interference. I was on a flight this summer when the pilot came on the PA system to say someone needed to put their device in airplane mode.
I see lots of folks saying it doesn’t matter much anymore but I gotta think they can still tell, so it must still create some noise/interference. I was on a flight this summer when the pilot came on the PA system to say someone needed to put their device in airplane mode.
The original US ban on cell phone use on airplanes was put in place by the FCC not the FAA. The issue had something to do with too many phones being able to reach too many towers simultaneously. If I remember correctly this caused spectrum to be blocked on multiple
towers causing overall congestion in that network area. FAA got in the game later with *speculation* that there might be a potential issue with airplane electronics.
The original US ban on cell phone use on airplanes was put in place by the FCC not the FAA. The issue had something to do with too many phones being able to reach too many towers simultaneously. If I remember correctly this caused spectrum to be blocked on multiple
towers causing overall congestion in that network area. FAA got in the game later with *speculation* that there might be a potential issue with airplane electronics.
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