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 ...
Known as a transceiver"
Uh, wouldn't that be a transmit only radio?
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.
"during an epic reenactment of the Battle of Troy. "
One can certainly get carried away with those home schooled history courses.
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.
VYOLA = voila (French for ‘There it is’)?
Yes, it’s my redneck version of Voila!...say, VYYY, OLA!!!!
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