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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Historically early phones would sit on similar bandwidths to some of the airframe systems. Do you remember placing early phones near speakers and getting interference?
Now some of those systems could be critical to the navigation and control of the aircraft, coming into land suddenly get feedback throwing guidance off.
Although modern phones and modern aircraft will not interact with each other it is safer to have a blanket ban incase your on a plane that does react to some phones.
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