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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Put a phone next to your computer speaker and hear the mess of a sound it comes out.
That’s your phone signal disturbing an audio channel.
Now, planes cables are shielded for that, but do you want it take the risk of 300 phones on board trying to deafen your pilot radio coms? Because that means you gonna incapacitate his radio, so he can’t com to ground, so 2 interception fighters show up and escort you to an airport and you don’t get to destination….
To add insult to injury: the plane is a big faraday cage, so your phone wouldn’t get any decent signal anyway as son as you take off. Then when airborne you won’t be covered by cellular towers anyway.
So it’s useless and if 300 people do it at once, also a potential nuisance for the flight.
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