Yuri K
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electronic devices can potentially badly damage the airplanes flight, because airplanes use types of frequencies (radio?) to coordinate themselves, it would be possible for the airplane to get slightly off target, although most new technologies try to avoid that, but remember all electronic devices emit some electromagnetic radiation (like radio waves, in some devices)
so you can have it with you but you should consider switching it off, and not attract too much attention at small heights.
at heights above 10000 feet (i think) your not allowed to use any electronic device (including mp3, cd players, ipods, ets)
take a book with you, or an entertainment weekly, and you can always sleep through the flight, or look outside the window (with a camera)
remember electronics will most probably not affect anything, but you will be asked to turn off your ipod on the plane.
plus here is an interesting post (by someone else)
1) Clearly, in the long term, there will have to be an outright ban or a list of approved devices, which have been cleared for operation within an aircraft cabin. The latter would be expensive, however, since separate clearances would be required for individual aircraft types.
2) Inconsistency is to be condemned, except that what we may sometimes see as inconsistency may not be. The complimentary DVD player supplied by the airline has probably been checked and may even have been suppressed, while the DVD player carried on by someone in coach will not have been. The rules up front may not only reflect inequality of treatment, but might also reflect (say) the positioning of the aircraft's GPS antenna (often above the centre or rear fuselage) or the nature of any extra EM protection in the soundproofing or the cabin liners in the first class cabin. The airline may even have gone to the expense of conducting a full EMI (Electro Magnetic Interference) survey in the forward cabin, but not in the rear. After all, if a Business Class passenger can't use his laptop he might move his custom (and the big profit on premium price tickets) to a rival airline, whereas the impact of little Johnny not being able to use his gameboy back in coach may have less of an impact on the bottom line.
Maybe their market surveys have even suggested to them that other passengers don't like the 'Tsss Tsss Tsss' emanating from the headphones of MP3 player users, and maybe they think they have a commercial reason for discouraging the use of such devices? I'm in this industry, and I don't pretend to know all the answers, but I do know that it's even less likely that the ordinary passenger even knows the questions.
3) A "turn off all devices" warning may have its uses, but if an airline knows from experience that the use of laptops in the rearmost seven rows (say) causes a particular problem then going directly to a pax in one of those rows may be a more appropriate course of action.
4) The airlines don't care what you think. They just want you to sit down, sit still, shut up, and not move about. If it were safe they'd probably want you quietly listening to your iPod (cos it will keep you quiet), so the fact that they're worried about it ought to give you some pause for thought. They certainly don't want to waste time and money arguing their case and engaging in dialogue with the passengers. If it makes life easier for them, they'll just ban electronic devices.
That's why it's a better idea to do what they tell you without argument and without question.
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