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Ryanair - Flight Mode? |
Xugaa
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Lol @ Fatreg and Gud... 
I'll go with the 'oogling at nice European ladies' then...
lol 
@ Gud... Did you complain? Also who yelled at you, flight staff or another passenger?
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SonySandy
Joined: Aug 07, 2003
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From: Sunny Scotland
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Ah well the PSP has built in 802.11b wi-fi, but you can switch it off by knocking a switch on the side. Its mad what they ban on planes! Phones i can understand, its bad enough having to converse with some f**kwit next to you that you don't know, worse still if they spent the whole flight gibbering on a phone!  |
arj2442
Joined: May 30, 2005
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ive just got back from a trip o germany, flying on both easy jet and german wings planes...and the caben crews message at the start of the flight was realy strange...
'could all electronic devices, including mobile phones with a flight mode function, please be turned off for tthe entire flight!'
So they are even cracking down on flight mode functions now,...Surely flight mode is designed to be safe on planes, as it eliminates thepossibilities of recieving or making calls...:s why are they saying turn off your flight mode fones?
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bart
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thinking about 9/11 those people on the plains called home with their cellphones ... but their plain crashed
now to be honest i don't think their is much trouble when using a cell phone. it could disrubt their frequency, but i don't think somebody will suddenly be able to fly the plain with is phone.
some plaines have microwaves, and if thats allowed, why not cell phones.
in the early W-lan days, microwaves used to disrubt the signal, but today its old news.
and if the company with who you are flying with really doesn't want you to use your phone or other device. then send them an agry lettre, and tell them ericsson can install a private network on their planes, so people can even make calls without any problem to the plains radio equipment.
With Ericsson and Nokia gone: we must keep their spirits alive and buy JOLLA or YOTA |
SonySandy
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The only legitimate reason they insist Flight-mode equiped phones are switched of is they are tarring us all with the same brush of miss-trust!
The reason, for ever 1 person with their phone correctly set in flight mode there will be 2 folk txting their mates! Its a sad fact of life, when was the last time you were in the cinema and some gimp recieved a phone call or actually sent a txt, i see it all the time. |
themarques
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On 2006-07-04 14:17:49, SonySandy wrote:
The only legitimate reason they insist Flight-mode equiped phones are switched of is they are tarring us all with the same brush of miss-trust!
The reason, for ever 1 person with their phone correctly set in flight mode there will be 2 folk txting their mates! Its a sad fact of life, when was the last time you were in the cinema and some gimp recieved a phone call or actually sent a txt, i see it all the time.
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That pretty much sums it up, but on the remote chance phones have been used in terrorist attacks i.e setting of the detonator of a bomb etc, like what happened in Spain last year.
So I am pretty much still cool with them telling us to switch off, for safety reasons and also the remotest chance that the signal does get affected from traffic control to the airline.
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Gigs
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It all comes down to the airline, some carriers are fine with mobile phones, others aren't. Regardless of what we may think, it is the airlines call on that one and unfortunately their staff are only following the airlines rules.
If you're in doubt, ring the airlines information line and ask them their policy on flight mode enabled devices.
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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=inf&quest=laptops
says you can use non cellular PDAs..
surely flight mode on a phone renders in not working in the celluar sense?
fatreg
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SonySandy
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Its a phone primarily you might turn it into flight mode, but its not like a big red light flashes over your head when its in flight mode! Staff are right to assume its therefor being used in a non-flight mode setting. |
haynesycop
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I think it depends entirely on the airline your travelling with i have flown with a few different airlines the past 4 years when i had both a P900 and a P910i and on one it was fine as i showed them the screen and the other it was a straight NO! So?
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Gud
Joined: May 21, 2002
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@ Gud... Did you complain? Also who yelled at you, flight staff or another passenger?
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It was one of the flight attendants... thus I didn't complain...
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Posted: 2006-07-04 12:54
