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Originally Posted by m-reader
That's why I put "ban" inside the "quotes"  If I was talking to you face to face I'd probably be making the "quote" fingers gesture (lame, I know)
As far as mobile phone radio onboard aircrafts - this rule is pretty much the same world wide - turn it off.
The problem (or rather the issue) with e-book readers is that not everybody would know that there is a mobile phone inside! I wouldn't put it past the security regulation authors to ban the whole thing outright rather than try to educate people. |
It's astonishing to me how worked up we get about a bit of completely unsubstantiated speculation. We've gone from an unconfirmed hypothesis that, maybe, someone in authority might conclude that a possible approach to avoiding the last weekend's kind of incident might be to consider the option of introducing some kind of ban or other restriction on electronic devices to the fear that, because some e=readers have 3g radios in them, they'll all be banned.
Come one guys (and gals), please - let's deal with the issues that we know are affecting us (or will be) rather than conjuring spectres.
Maybe a ban'll happen; maybe it won't; let's deal with it when it does.
By the way, those of us who used to fly a lot in the 90's remember that it was routine (not universal, but quite common) then to ban the use of portable CD players, laptops and the like, in case their electrical emanations interfered with aircraft systems. And that was devices that had zero radio components in the. Miraculously, we all survived this privation. Maybe we could again.