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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Do you know how expensive FAA certification is? Do you realize that any time the manufacturer tweaks the device, including firmware updates, they would have to get re-certified?
No consumer device is going to spend that amount of time/effort/money just so you can keep it on during takeoff/landing. It's not cost effective for the company.
If it were really that simple, companies would already be doing it.
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I think you're missing my point. What I'm saying is that when a rule flies against common sense yet continues to be slavishly enforced people will naturally find ways to circumvent it. And the next, inevitable step is that people will start to second guess all of the rules and decide which other ones they can also safely start to circumvent.
So in the interest of overall safety, the FAA should take a step back and look at that particular rule and put the "common sense" back in. I'm not saying that the right answer is to add FAA certification to particular products, I'm saying that the FAA should take a look at the regulation itself and decide how to implement it such that it adds to air safety not detract from it.