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I agree with the OP...and the poster whose cousin the pilot said the main reason gadgets are banned is to ensure the attention of the passengers during take-off and landing.
The fact is that pilots use celphones. (So do doctors and nurses in the hospital when no-ones looking, oh my!). Stupid airline "rules" that prevent the use of an e-reader or a GPS unit ( I fire mine up often when I fly...I recently left John Lennon Airport with my Mio and navigated the streets of liverpool at 185 MPH!) need to be called into question by folks like us, or they will never be upgraded for the 21st century. Complaining to the stewards, our frontline "face" of an airline, that the rules are obselete is the only way we have to voice our disapproval. We don't get to meet very often with the CEO of BA.
And folks that jump in with comments like "those are the rules you agreed to, so bow your head, hat in hand, and put up with them....baa, baa) are forgetting that a little bit of civil disobedience is a fine way to make our voices heard about silly rules from the 1960's, when an "electronic device" was a great heaving thing with valve tubes and pulsating diodes, lol.
As far as an ereader being an "electronic device" "by it's very nature" (!?) and thus MUST be shut off....
...well so is a pacemaker, mate...and a digital watch..
Flawed logic, indeed.
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