checking Blackberry during taxi

[mike1mc]

Our SOP is phones off prior to engine start

 

[stlflyguy]

I think it's a shame that it has to be put on ANY checklist...

 

[Fly91]

I think it's a shame that it has to be put on ANY checklist...

Times change and everything must change along with it. Cell phones have become such a human necessity its scary. An incident/accident WILL happen due to a pilot messing around with a cell phone, its just a matter of when. Car, bus and/or train accidents happen every day because of them.

 

[TMMT]

Yeah all common sense goes right out the window once the lawyers begin suing everything and everyone in sight

 

[vtwo]

Is it any different from check the ACARS message while taxing out?
You know the one that says you have a drug test after landing at your next destination, and now you will miss your commute home.