Whats bad about Cell Phones

[DCMartin]

Checklist

I always try to remember to turn it off. I think I am going to add that to my checklist.

By buddy who works for Air Whisky was telling me their Checklist actually includes "Cell Phone - OFF"

 

[Twotter76]

Unfortunately that is true - our before start checklists were amended to add Cell Phones - Off. However after much bitching from the pilot group it was removed in the last revision. Good riddance.

 

[EagleRJ]

AA and Eagle have it on the checklist now.

The story goes, an MD-80 was on the takeoff roll and the FO's phone rang. The Inspector on the jumpseat didn't think it was very cool.

 

[glasspilot]

Something I actually know something about.

I got a new cell phone, and it was my practice to leave my cell phone on the right front seat, on, when I was flying. No big deal. I had my new cell phone on, and was headed for AZO, in IMC. I could not get the localizer or glidescope to line up. Ended up going around, and said to myself what is different, what is wrong? New cell phone was the answer. I turned it off, and everything lined up.

That is my personal experience, with my AC, and your cell phone and AC may not act the same, but now, I turn it off when I get in the plane.

I flew into AZO once too. I was cleared for a Visual Approach to one of the runways in a CRJ. Our company policy is to always back up Visual Approaches with the ILS if one is available. Well, the LOC and GS were not lining up the whole way down. The FO and I kept asking each other if we were going to the right runway. We were. After we landed we asked ATC about that and they said, "we cleared you for a Visual. The ILS is shared between two runways and we left it on the other runway because you were on a Visual approach."

My point is there just may be another reason why the needles wern't lineing up on an ILS in AZO. Fly safe and turn off the phone anyway.