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Originally Posted by begem0t
So, next time you decide to keep your phone on, think what happens when the pilot is lining up for landing, looking at the displays in front of him, and suddenly some of his equipment goes crazy and shows the strip 2 miles to the left, and the height is suddenly 50 feet.... OK, most probably this want crash the plane, worst case he'll do a go-around and land safely, pilots are trained for emergencies, but do you really want to try this?
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A certain private pilot I know (ahem) was recently talking to his flying buddy with whom he regularly goes flying to practice ILS approaches. They observed that both regularly forget to turn their cellphones off before their flights. In several years, neither ever noticed any problems with the ILS. Perhaps if there were a planeful of people it would be different.