U.S. Senate Vs Electronic Devices
12-13-2012 | 01:52 PM
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Pardon me, but who gives a damn what the flying public thinks about operating portable electronic devices?
There is a safety concern on many fronts such as a high speed abort. Those iPads can be a damn knife edge and seriously injure someone. And Senator Mckasskill? She's a detestable politician who's trying to score political brownies.
It just burns me up that the general public feels they no more or know what's best.
There is a safety concern on many fronts such as a high speed abort. Those iPads can be a damn knife edge and seriously injure someone. And Senator Mckasskill? She's a detestable politician who's trying to score political brownies.
It just burns me up that the general public feels they no more or know what's best.
12-13-2012 | 02:00 PM
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12-13-2012 | 02:11 PM
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Pardon me, but who gives a damn what the flying public thinks about operating portable electronic devices?
There is a safety concern on many fronts such as a high speed abort. Those iPads can be a damn knife edge and seriously injure someone. And Senator Mckasskill? She's a detestable politician who's trying to score political brownies.
It just burns me up that the general public feels they no more or know what's best.
There is a safety concern on many fronts such as a high speed abort. Those iPads can be a damn knife edge and seriously injure someone. And Senator Mckasskill? She's a detestable politician who's trying to score political brownies.
It just burns me up that the general public feels they no more or know what's best.
How is a Kindle any more of an evil baby killing assault device in an RTO than an extra hot Venti in one hand and a copy of War and Peace in the other? Who is evacuating easier, the person with an eReader in running shoes or the magazine reader in flip flops?
The rule is going to change, at least to some degree. We brought most of it on ourselves with rediculous top of descent "turn it all off" PA's and zero tolerance (which always means zero common sense) policies towards eReaders that don't even transmit in an attempt to dumb everyone down to the lowest common numerator.
12-13-2012 | 02:14 PM
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Safety? Who needs that!
Everyone knows these things fly themselves!
12-13-2012 | 02:22 PM
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After taking on the super Constutional issue of airline employee seniority (that almost made it into the Bill of Rights as the 11th ammendment, but ALPA killed it in an attempt to lure the APA back into the fold centuries down the road. Srsly, true story) she will now work on piling onto her awesome legacy. And to think she wouldn't even be there were it not for her opponents "October suprise" little abortion one liner.
Talk about the butterfly effect.
Talk about the butterfly effect.
12-13-2012 | 06:55 PM
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I don't see any difference in someone reading Moby Dick in a paperback or on a Kindle. Most of those e-readers use about as much power as a watch battery. If everyone is concerned about distraction, then why not outlaw books and newspapers? I think this outdated reg is in need of a refresh.
12-13-2012 | 07:37 PM
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I don't see any difference in someone reading Moby Dick in a paperback or on a Kindle. Most of those e-readers use about as much power as a watch battery. If everyone is concerned about distraction, then why not outlaw books and newspapers? I think this outdated reg is in need of a refresh.
12-13-2012 | 07:57 PM
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In the case of low-power electronics, I don't know why it's so hard to understand that you don't want the time to prepare the cabin to be spent haggling over whether their device counts a an e-reader or not. Put all your crap away for the next 20 minutes. It's simple crowd management.
12-13-2012 | 08:41 PM
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I remember as a kid listening to my cassette player from gate to gate with no issues in the 80s. But once the gameboy came out electronic devices became limited on when they could be used. Always seemed more of a "distraction issue" just in case.
The whole issue is people are so "plugged in" to their devices that they feel they have the right to be on them, regardless what anyone tells them. Even if there was case studies saying cell phones or kindles left on could mess with navigation equipment or possibly start a spark in the fuel tanks, people would still want to test the systems.
Still what was the difference between a 727, 747, or any other commercial ac flown around the world before the "electronic" ban. Nothing, same equipment, just the FAA made it a rule that things must be turned off.
The whole issue is people are so "plugged in" to their devices that they feel they have the right to be on them, regardless what anyone tells them. Even if there was case studies saying cell phones or kindles left on could mess with navigation equipment or possibly start a spark in the fuel tanks, people would still want to test the systems.
Still what was the difference between a 727, 747, or any other commercial ac flown around the world before the "electronic" ban. Nothing, same equipment, just the FAA made it a rule that things must be turned off.
12-14-2012 | 12:50 AM
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During an RTO, a newspaper, magazine or book hurts a lot less when hitting the back of my head than an iPad or phone.
Nothing to do with electronics, just purely safety related to hard projectiles traveling at high speed. Good luck holding onto your stuff, especially in the event of egress from the runway.
Nothing to do with electronics, just purely safety related to hard projectiles traveling at high speed. Good luck holding onto your stuff, especially in the event of egress from the runway.
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