The Federal Aviation Administration approved a rule change...
The Federal Aviation Administration approved a rule change that will allow use of portable electronic devices during all aspects of flight and that’s good news for travelers, Mitchell Lazarus of Fletcher Heald wrote on the firm’s blog. “A lot of…
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us hate turning off our electronic devices for take-off and landing,” Lazarus said (http://bit.ly/1dYePvH). “We have to sit there, bored, and leaf through the SkyMall catalogue, hoping the pilot knows what he’s doing.” The technical argument for forcing people to turn off their tablets was always thin, Lazarus said. “The alleged reason was that emissions from a Kindle reader or other personal electronic device somehow interfered with the cockpit equipment and would take the plane off course, or something like that,” he said. “We were always suspicious of that argument; the maximum emissions from a device in Airplane Mode are extremely low, measured in nanowatts. The argument sounded even thinner when we learned the pilots were allowed to use iPads in the cockpit. Right next to all the supposedly interference-prone equipment."