diverrick
Contributor
As a private pilot, I was shortly trained on cell phone usage, in flight. Seems the problem it that at cartain altitudes above the earth, the cell phones simply has too many cells to use, and uses them all, tending to clog up the system as a result. After you get to cruising altitude in a commercial jet, I think you'd be hard pressed to find any signal at all as you would be "out of range" of most all terrestrial cell towers. I would also agree that the chances of a cell phone disrupting the flight instruments is a fallacy, but the FAA like always, errs on the side of saying you cannot do it until we are convinced that you can do it with out influencing anything else. Now.. that being said, you need to remember that the FAA still believes in Magnetos as the way to go. They are stuck in a paradigm that would make most intellegent folks shudder. They are so far behind the times as far as technology goes, its ridiculous! Because you cannot change anything until they say you can, leads to a condition where you cannot change no matter what, until they say you can, so we are stuck somewhere just above horse and buggy technology, except for home built aircraft.