Cell Phone Usage

[Smokehouse]

WOW,

I had no idea the thread I was starting with this subject

I wonder if Nextel Direct Connect would be just as bad, its not really a cell phone, its a digital walkie talkie

 

[avbug]

Sometimes, when a passenger uses a cell phone, I see dead people.

 

[A Squared]

To add to Avbug's post about emeergency authority, there's something everyone should understand clearly. It doesn't count if the emergency is of your own making. If you got yourself into the emergency, you're going to get violated for each and every regulation you broke dealing with the emergency. Exactly what guidlines the FAA use to decide when an emergency is of your own making are not clear, but If they do decide it's your fault, they will not accept the emergency authority defense.

regards

 

[avbug]

I don't drink (nyquil makes me gag), but I'd be willing to start if it would make the dead people go away.

I don't recall the case in detail, but a situation occured several years ago in which the captain violated several regulations in response to the first officer's assertion of an emergency. The emergency did not exist. In investigating the complaint and the ensuing enforcement process, the determination was made that the captain's actions were justified as he was responding to an emergency created by the first officer.

The emergency was the first officer. It was his rash behavior and call for action that was the emergency. The captain was not subject to enforcement action, but the first officer was.

 

[KickSave]

This doesn't have much to do with seeing dead people or cell phones, but when I lived in Bethesda Maryland, I constantly heard brief exhanges between Airlines and ATC.. over my cable TV. Not only did they interrupt Seinfeld with "Delta 1289, fly heading 250", but the exchanges were deafiningly loud, regardless of the TV's volume setting.

Electronics interfere with other Electronics in many strange ways.

Now can someone tell me why my cell phone ALWAYS turns itself off when I fly at 3000 feet in a Cessna?

 

[flywithastick]

My friend asked him isn't that against the rules, the DE said it was ok.

Pretty gutsy move, questioning the DPE on an FCC reg.

 

[ShawnC]

Pretty gutsy move, questioning the DPE on an FCC reg.

He thought it was part of the ride at first, this guy is known for testing to see if you will assert your PIC privileges. But he was talking to his wife or something, at least on the half he could hear.