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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Your phones use the same bandwidth used by flight crew to communicate with ground crew. Pilots have to regularly communicate their status to so called “earth stations”. As they are too high in the sky, they need lot of power to send the messages to the station. If your phone’s are on, they too communicate with base stations (of your network operator) which interferes with the signals sent by flight crew. To mitigate this, they might need more power, which still doesn’t guarantee successful message transmission. As we don’t want to interfere with more important messages being sent, it is usually advised to put the phones on flight mode.
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