Originally Posted by
mynameisjim
Did we notice the following?:
Bans pilots from using personal electronic devices in the cockpit, a response to an incident last October in which pilots of a Northwest Airlines plane flew more than 100 miles past their destination of Minneapolis while they were working on their laptops.
This one I could care less about. That's going to hurt the airlines more than anybody else. I flew with a guy just a couple weeks ago that left his cell phone at home, and we had to do 3 gate returns in 5 days for minor write ups that could have easily been done on the phone. I have stopped using my phone for company calls anyway since they refuse to pay for it, and I'm not wasting any more minutes on that until they do.