Phone while flying

prospect

Hi,

Can you use your phones mp3 player on a flight?
I know phones are not allowed, so if I took out the sim card, could I use the phone just for mp3s?

Thanks

Agent Smith

i would highly doubt they would allow you to, dispite removing the sim card

Hal1

prospect wrote:

Hi,

Can you use your phones mp3 player on a flight?
I know phones are not allowed, so if I took out the sim card, could I use the phone just for mp3s?

Thanks

Didn't swine-air allow passengers to use mobile and laptop facilities on board their flights recently. With regard to using your phone without the sim card, it still tranmits a signal for emergency numbers, (999, 112 etc).

Bob the Builder

Hal1 wrote:

With regard to using your phone without the sim card, it still tranmits a signal for emergency numbers, (999, 112 etc).

yah, therefore still unusuable

The only phone's you are allowed use is the ones that have "Flight Mode", when you enable this, its immediatley stops transmitting from your mobile, but your phone is still usuable(not to make calls, or text, just to play with)

Sharp afaik is the only manafacturer that have this feature available on their mobiles....

LoBo

When you switch on a K800i it gives you the option to start in 'flight mode' which I presume is one where it doesn't transmit any signals (so just to play mp3s/ camera / etc).

Doubt any current flight crew would accept that the phone does it though..

#Smokey#

would offline mode not do the trick? and its a proven myth that cell phones do not affect the plane so just listen away(only after the plane has taken off and about 20 mins before landing just to be safe)

dcarroll

how would the flight crew know if its just in your pocket as an mp3 player?

Urban Weigl

LoBo wrote:

When you switch on a K800i it gives you the option to start in 'flight mode' which I presume is one where it doesn't transmit any signals (so just to play mp3s/ camera / etc).

Doubt any current flight crew would accept that the phone does it though..

Aye, Flight Mode was designed to be used on planes, where mobiles are otherwise not allowed.

cupthehand

nevf wrote:

yah, therefore still unusuable

The only phone's you are allowed use is the ones that have "Flight Mode", when you enable this, its immediatley stops transmitting from your mobile, but your phone is still usuable(not to make calls, or text, just to play with)

Sharp afaik is the only manafacturer that have this feature available on their mobiles....

My Nokia 6233 has it

Ruu_Old

I think one of the Sony Ericcson phones has flight mode (P800), highly unlikely the cabin crew will be able to tell that or allow it though.

Sniipe

did I hear that ryanair allow mobile phones on flights now. Apparently they pose no flight risk

byrnefm

The Qtek 8310 / Vodafone V1240 also has flight mode.

As to Ryanair and using phones on board, that'll happen around mid-2007 when they install their own phone equipment on board. It'll act as a mini-phone network, so you'll effectively be roaming on a Ryanair network Heaven knows what they'll charge for this service, though!

prospect

Okay, thanks guys.

TerrorFirmer

nevf wrote:

Sharp afaik is the only manafacturer that have this feature available on their mobiles....

Most manufacturers produce models with flight mode. All nokia Symbian phones since around the time of the later 66xx line have it, and it did come in some of the earlier variants too. Flightmode though, the problem being as mentioned, is something the flight crew are most likely to not comprehend and will still just insist on "has to be switched off".

SE has a strange flightmode - sim has to be in to use it. Not a problem if you are just using your regular phone on a plane but it does mean that if you get a new phone and want to transfer data elsewhere, or simply wish to use an old SE phone as a media player, you can't without a second sim. Bit odd, and especially when you consider most other brands allow flightmode without a sim inserted.