Flying question ???

Question

I hope one day to be a flight attendant but one thing i dont get is why you have to turn your phone off ? I leave my cell phone on and text during flights i fly alot and im not dead,sure i have had bumpy flights :p

Answer 1

do you wanna listen to a hundred other people trying to talk on the phone at the same time?

i sure don't... i wouldn't imagine many people would.

Answer 2

There are always those around who know better than the authorities aren't there?  Yes, you go ahead and endanger the lives of all those on board......the signal from a mobile phone can affect HF transmissions, emergency radio traffic, navigational equipment and power generation equipment.

Answer 3

1) It may(and can) interfere with communications and sky traffic control (see the expert above's answer)...you are putting not just your life in danger but all your fellow passengers too. You've been lucky up to now.

2) Don't you think that hearing some moron talking loudly into his mobile phone.."Hi, Chris, we've just taken off....we're over the coast of France... we're over the Alps"...throughout the flight is conducive to a relaxing start to a holiday.

What the h**l did you do before there were mobile phones?

Stop being so selfish and think of others....the rules are there for a reason....not so that you can blatantly break them.

If I saw you, I'd report you to the steward/ess. I suppose you smoke in the toilets too do you?

Answer 4

when you sit by your TV or use a video camera and you have your phone on, have you ever heard that clicking sound coming from the speakers?

well that interference can reuin all the instrements accuracy on the plain, and sometimes set off warning lights that the captain will see and stop the flight.

Answer 5

The telephone trying to connect to a server can draw power away from micro electronics and effect the inertial navigation system.

This is why we turn our phones off.

A Saudi Arabian army captain received 70 lashes earlier this month for using his mobile phone during an airplane's takeoff.

British oil worker Neil Whitehouse spent a year in jail for refusing to shut off his cell phone during a 1998 British Airways flight from Spain.

Swiss investigators believe that mobile phone interference may have helped cause last year's crash of Crossair flight LX498, which went down shortly after takeoff from the Zurich airport, killing all 10 passengers on board.

A Slovenian flight on the way to Sarajevo made an emergency landing last month after the cockpit fire alarm went off. Investigators say a cell phone left turned on in the luggage compartment triggered the erroneous warning.

To the frustration -- if not incredulity -- of airplane passengers, whose only option to communicate with someone on the ground is airplane seat-installed phones, the aviation industry touted these incidents as more proof that cell phone use in flight is dangerous.

And that belief only reinforces the industry's resolve to keep permanent a ban on using the devices during flights.

Answer 6

It's so that the signals your cell is sending and recieving interfere with those that the airplane is.

Seriously, turn the thing off next time. You are endangering yourself and everyone else on the plane.