I’m not talking about playing games or watching stuff on flight mode, I’m talking about making calls and texting or using mobile data.
As a kid my parents told me that it interfered with the pilot and they couldn’t see but I realised that’s the same reason they don’t like the overhead light in the car.
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It has nothing to do with electromagnetic interference with airplane systems.
Having worked with pilots, maintainers, and people in the airline industry its actually because planes are moving too fast near the ground that they switch cell towers too often and cell carriers couldn’t figure out how to bill you. They asked the airlines to just have people turn them off until they were over 10,000ft and out of range of the towers. The problem is mostly solved since there are only a couple large carriers now (Verizon, AT&T, T-mobile) and its more of a hold over and to hopefully have people pay attention to flight attendant instructions.
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