Airport Takeoff/Landing Rule for Gadgets May Be Nuked by 4Q13

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]f-14[/nom]requires too much electricity, you don't want the planes generator burning out mid flight from over use[/citation]

I doubt that it needs more electricity than some of the specialty equipment on a few planes such as those that literally have decent radio or radar towers or whatever on them.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]f-14[/nom]FCC rules are in place because Tower and alot of plane crew and ground crew can pick up everything every one is saying on any and every frequency, since many travelers are discussing sensitive things as mergers and stock buy outs and such as well as attorney client privilege, you know things that violate a helluva lot more laws than lives.i don't really care, what i do care about as one pilot told me was " do you really want a mac book air flying at you at 200-400mph, most crashes happen on take off and landing "once you understand that your devices are now projectile weapons much larger than bullets but moving much slower you get the idea that you're the coyote and the safe or piano is going to drop on YOU! still want to play with your electronics? air planes are not cars, they use a 3 dimensional mode of transportation ALL THE TIME, not a single dimension like cars.[/citation]

It's not any less secure than talking on the phone in a lot of other places and I doubt that you're even correct about anyone being able to listen in on it without equipment built specifically to do that and even then, again, that would mean that nowhere is truly safe anyway.

A MacBook Air at 200-400 mph isn't nearly as dangerous as a lot of the luggage or passengers moving at such velocity, especially the plane itself. It's a very poor excuse to not have a computer on the flight and even then, it's a far worse excuse with much smaller devices.