Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "Why you can't use phones on aircraft" video.

  1. No sale. Everything on the aircraft, laptops, phones, other electronics are generating plenty of radiation. Avionics are not that sensitive. The FAA has left it up to each aircraft captain to allow or forbid cellphones. I don't turn my cellphone off in flight and have much the same equipment in my private aircraft as you do. Cellphones just aren't very useful in flight, the reception is spotty. In high altitude aircraft that is far worse. Ground stations are not that easy to interfere with by fast flying cellphones. If it were true, they could easily block your phone. At the end of the day, we are going to end up where the aircraft provides a "micro cell" that gives people on the aircraft essentially a cellphone tower on the aircraft itself.
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