Originally Posted by
ExAF
Forgot to mention....the same "lady" with the 30 min connection is the same one still talking on her Iphone well after the door closed. Same phone starts chiming as the texts and emails started flooding in on short final. I couldn't take it any more and said..."they don't make nearly that much noise when they are turned off like they are supposed to be right now."
To this day, I am convinced it was pax cell phone(s) that generated a false glide path on us once in the MD-80. This was back in the 90's when cell phones still actually worked in flight.
This bogus signal tried to drive us into the dirt. We're used to glide slopes either working perfectly, or generating an OFF flag. This one did neither.
The best time for passengers to use them is when the FA's are buckled in after the "Prepare for landing" PA... they can call people to say something like "Yeah, we're about to land, pick me up at blah blah."