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Is it really dangerous to use a cell phone on a plane?
CNN ^ | 1/21/11 | Marnie Hunter

Posted on 01/21/2011 8:34:06 AM PST by markomalley

You know who you are. You leave your phone on during flights, maybe do a little text messaging and otherwise break rules about cell phone use on planes once the doors close for departure.

"This is an absurd rule. I never turn (mine) off. I may text or browse the Web, but I never talk on the phone," one CNN.com reader commented recently.

On the other side of the aisle are passengers who abide by the safety instructions and warnings, worried that cellular signals may indeed interfere with cockpit instruments.

Take those two camps and add passengers who say either way, listening to fellow travelers chatter on the phone would be annoying, and you have a heated debate -- sometimes literally in the airplane aisles.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: mythbusters
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To: A.A. Cunningham
"Your phone is a transmit/send radio.

Known as a transceiver"

Uh, wouldn't that be a transmit only radio?

61 posted on 01/21/2011 5:15:23 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: antiRepublicrat
One day, long ago in extreme northern and eastern MT we wanted to make a phone call. Finally got some analog "bars" on the top of a SE facing "hill".

Stopped and made the call.

When we looked at the phone bill later, we were surprised to find the call had been made through Bismarck, half a state away.

62 posted on 01/21/2011 5:19:49 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: John.Galt2012
LOL.

"during an epic reenactment of the Battle of Troy. "

One can certainly get carried away with those home schooled history courses.

63 posted on 01/21/2011 5:22:54 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: markomalley
What about my Lasonic ghetto blaster on board?


64 posted on 01/21/2011 5:24:27 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: IamConservative

I have never heard this from my husband in all the years he’s been in the cockpit. Not even once. I’ll ask him though, when he lands.


65 posted on 01/21/2011 5:33:10 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (*********************End automatic pay raises for congresscritters**)
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To: Gaffer

VYOLA = voila (French for ‘There it is’)?


66 posted on 01/23/2011 8:25:05 AM PST by bt_dooftlook (Democrats - the party of Amnesty, Abortion, and Adolescence)
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To: bt_dooftlook

Yes, it’s my redneck version of Voila!...say, VYYY, OLA!!!!


67 posted on 01/23/2011 8:44:43 AM PST by Gaffer
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