Get Ready to Use Your iPad in Takeoff and Landing Bloomberg News
go to original September 28, 2013

Everyone who's flown knows you have to turn off ALL electronic devices during takeoff and landing or face the wrath of the flight attendants, but why? Can your iPhone really screw up the plane's navigation system? (collegehumor)

The days of keeping the iPad or Kindle off while a commercial flight is under 10,000 feet could end if U.S. aviation authorities heed an advisory panel.

Airline passengers should be allowed to read e-books, send e-mail and browse websites throughout flights of Wi-Fi equipped planes, including during takeoff and landing, an advisory committee to the Federal Aviation Administration has concluded, a person familiar with panel’s work said today.

Mobile-phone calls and text messages would remain forbidden. They are separately banned over concerns the signals may interfere with ground networks.

... The advisory panel recommending relaxed rules finished its work Sept. 25. As is the case today, airlines would have to demonstrate to the FAA that each aircraft type can safely operate with passenger electronic devices turned on and in use.

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