[onehipdad]

He didn't exactly respond to host Soledad O'Brien's point that, regardless of whether or not phones present a danger to the flight, Cardone did disregard the instructions of the flight attendants. But he did express concern that the FAA letter is overly vague about the implications of having this scolding on file for the next two years

I travel 45 weeks a year, and there's always one of these a-holes in near proximity to me, who thinks they're above the law simply because they don't believe their device poses a danger.

YOUR OPINION DOESN'T MATTER! FOLLOW THE %/&#@ RULES!!!

[Jack Hydrazine]

If they pose a danger why doesn’t the FAA just ban their use outright?

[ConorMacNessa]

Enlighten me, please. What danger is posed by a camera used inside a flying aircraft?



Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[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.

[dalereed]

Phones don’t impose any danger in fact the rule of not using them from an aircraft was issued from the FCC!

From altitude the wipe out many cell towers all trying to connect to the strongest signal and being at altitude that phone is the strongest (line of sight) signal to as many as 50 of them.

Everyone that owned an aircraft and had an FCC license for their radios got the notice in the early 80s and that included me.

[Excellence]

But iPads don't have phones. How do they interfere? Well, I guess they are radio devices.

[Kirkwood]

Agree 1000%.

[SandwicheGuy]

YOUR OPINION DOESN'T MATTER! FOLLOW THE %/&#@ RULES!!!

Belsen? Buchenwald? The US Armed Forces guidelines on following illegal orders? As a famous man once said, "Any fool can make a rule, and any fool can mind it." You mind away, Sunshine.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“who thinks they’re above the law simply because they don’t believe their device poses a danger.”

So how does this affect you; and why is your dander up about it?

[Atlas Sneezed]

...thinks they’re above the law simply because they don’t believe their device poses a danger.

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It’s not a law, it’s an airline rule.