[USNBandit]

Here is the simple reason there are restrictions below 10k. How many electronic devices are there on the market today? 1000, 10,000? I don't know. When you put electronics on a plane strange things can happen. That threat is low, but the FAA doesn't want to have to test all that equipment so they came up with the 10k rule. It also limits the amount of potential objects flying around the cabin if something bad happens on takeoff or landing.

This threat is really minuscule, but it does exist.

[Lady Lucky]

When you put electronics on a plane strange things can happen.

Such as what?

[Atlas Sneezed]

When you put electronics on a plane strange things can happen.

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Except for one itty-bitty thing:

THEY NEVER HAVE!!!!

No harm to navigation has ever come from a consumer device on an aircraft!

And if there is a minuscule risk, then well, FREEDOM IS WORTH IT!!!

[Psycho_Runner]

Nonsense and illogical. An iPad weighs less than a lot of books and so the rational is that lighter objects like iPads pose more of a threat than a heavier object like a book?

Think about it.

[Psycho_Runner]

Nonsense and illogical. An iPad weighs less than a lot of books and so the rational is that lighter objects like iPads pose more of a threat than a heavier object like a book?

Think about it.