FAA ASIs have better things to do than troll social media looking for photos taken in flight and uploaded to Instagram.

Precisely why I don't have social media, and I'm certainly not dumb enough to post any self incriminating pictures. This article is still tantamount to sitting on the street, taking video of people texting and driving, and contacting the police, news, and their employers about it. Vigilante justice by a pimply faced jealous wannabe, who takes selfies of himself in a CRJ lav. Carry on.

Well then best of luck to you...you seem to have this sh!t all locked up!

Could you please write some papers espousing your safety theories as well? We're all really tired of the restrictions on doing things that haven't caused us to crash before.

Yeah except when a violation of Federal law is reported they are required to investigate. There's just that one little annoying tidbit.

It's on Yahoos home page.

https://www.yahoo.com

For someone that appears to Not be an airline pilot, you sure post a lot. Are you the media?

I'm all for **** talking and trolling but you guys sound like a bunch of immature twats when you post stuff like he has a small penis, or the ridiculous memes......just saying....

Well, someone was going to say that anyway. By the way, it's a 50/50 shot that he has a small penis.

Confession:

I got something out of my flight bag once. It took attention away from monitoring for several seconds. I've often been so engrossed pulling out, filing through pages and reading FAA mandated charts that I've had to say, "say again.." or ask "what fix did he give us"? I've also missed as a crew radio calls for funny jokes and interesting conversations. I've done a puzzle or game, ate some food, fixated on scenery out the window, read a thing, made non-critical banter below 10k. I don't know if I've flown with anyone who can't say the same.

Let any required and non required duty be be done with wisdom, prudentcy and situational awareness. This is what prevents actions from becoming a safety issue, not some arbitrary regulation. Reading the release is probably more distracting than snapping a picture (head up vs head down), though both may not be appropriate at a given phase. And if it can be managed, look back and forth ever so often and scan and cross-check.

As it relates to taking a picture, it can take all but a few seconds, and you can also stop midway and do a scan of the instruments, and back to the camera. Essentially it is the exact same thing as staring at something out the window for a few seconds, you're just viewing it through a screen and hitting a button. PEDs have a stigma, probably because of how it relates to driving. Viewing photons emitted from a PED is always reckless but viewing photons reflected from a city, sunset, mountain, piece of paper can be properly managed. Its perception, not reality. Be smart with with what-when-how you do anything in the flight deck, and for love, be smart about social media.

Yes I am.....filler