A Carolla said it was scam years ago. He had a point. If it interfered with the navigation they wouldn't rely on dumbasses voluntarily turning them off.
Very true.
This is hot garbage ass bullshit. The reason you are not allowed to have a phone on in an air plane is because of cell towers. When you are in the air your cell phone tries to connect to multiple towers, and is switching between them at a high rate as you travel. It clogs up the towers and costs the cell companies a bunch of money by increasing the amount of radio traffic.
It used to be that the excess radio waves were a slight issue for the planes, very slight, back when fewer frequencies were utilized. That ended decades ago. The rule stands because it clogs up network traffic and costs money. That's it. Cell towers have a finite amount of connections they can make, if you have 50+ phones traveling at over 300 mph each trying to take up a connection on multiple towers, hopping along a route, it fucks things up. Multiply that by several planes, it REALLY fucks things up.
But if you take one single connection, the plane's one dedicated connection, you can then share the "lane" and provide wifi through cells towers at passes over at a significant drop in resource cost.
The author of this article is an ignorant faggot that didn't bother to do shit for research.
LOL, wow. Tell us how you really feel!!
I FEEL the caliber of user's on this site is shit, particularity in comparison to old Voat. Because then and there the comments would have been a collection of people questioning the validity of this article and ultimately concluding how shit it is instead of a bunch of fuckers circle jerking false BS in agreement to the sentiment.
Then and there you would have been called a nigger-kike, to vet your own shit better, and you would ultimately be better off for it. Instead the few comments on this post are "I agree with this incorrect thing because of children," "That's kinda not true, but wont say why," "show me the demographics," and "fuck 'em"
I feel like a displaced refugee stuck with the lesser of two shit piles lamenting the loss if my defunct home. HAIL Arstotzka POAL, don't kike me out comrade, please? I promise I love AOU...
Article says "The real reason is this: Airlines think people won’t stop yapping on their cell phones during flights, leading to more instances of “air rage.” That’s why regulators continue to ban phone calls and data usage on planes; it’s just plain annoying."
I agree with a no cell phones rule. I can think back to one pre-teen sitting next to parents and yapping very loud on a video call to another pre-teen about absolutely nothing and yet the words continued and I looked forward to the girl having to turn off her phone for the flight.
Airplane mode is just a quick way to turn off cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.
So many airplane myths persist just because people are ignorant. I love flying but I'm not taking my shoes off and letting them take naked pictures of my old ass.
Still. Flying is insanely safe.
I'd like to see the demographics of who these people are "air raging". Something tells me most of them are named Shaneequa
Airlines think people won’t stop yapping on their cell phones during flights
They are absolutely correct.
Keep the ban.
Disclaimer: I hate flying and refuse to do so because of niggers
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