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Good onya Rocky- that was tops!
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Posted: 2003-11-21 04:02:50
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@CrackerJack

Are you implying that I am not in touch with the common man? That perhaps I some sort of snob? Perhaps a foppish cad who cares little for the plight of 'ordinary' folks?
Nothing could be further from the truth, I am a man of the people. Just the other day I stopped and spoke to a chap in the street, he wanted the time, I told him that it was half past two. So you see, I can be in touch with the avergae joe.
I had better wrap this up now, I have to go give the footman a damned good hiding for not chilling my afternoon caviar and champers properley.
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Posted: 2003-11-21 14:55:29
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No flight mode, no flight! This message was posted from a P900
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Posted: 2003-11-22 02:33:06
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HOw do i start flight mode, should i start it up before entering the plane and which menu is it in
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Posted: 2003-12-05 09:36:35
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Click on the signal strength icon on the bottom left with flip open.
You will get an option there to switch to flight mode. Want my suggestion dude, take that flip off when travelling!! People may not even realise that you have something called a mobile phone

I could easily shoot videos of landings and takeoffs when I was travelling
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Posted: 2003-12-05 09:41:46
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is there a flight mode in the 6600, and how do you turn on the flight mode for the 3650
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Posted: 2003-12-05 10:44:43
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ok, well this thread is a couple of months old but now relevant to me as I have been having trouble the last few weeks on BA.

I was asked to turn off the P900 three times in the last 3 weeks so I decided to contact BA customer relations for a confirmation of their policy and it seems they simply do not allow any phones to be switched on from engine startup to engine shutdown regardless of whether they have flight mode or not.

The argument seems to be "how do the crew know the phone is not switched on" but my response was how do they know anybodies phone is not switched on?

I also pointed out how nonsense this was when I have my ipaq with bluetooth and wifi and my laptop with the same and they never get questioned, but that seemed irrelevant to them.

They just don't seem to have a clue and are living in the dark ages.

edit: oh, I forgot to say "aaaarrrggghhh!"

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[ This Message was edited by: masseur on 2004-02-06 12:16 ]
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Posted: 2004-02-06 13:12:28
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@masseur
I think they will learn that "flight mode" can be accepted.
Some years back you could take over a boeing 747 (or any other plane) using just a laptop (with word or excel like in Dilbert ). How? They don't know and could never prove it. They where just scared.
My bet is that the planes electronics could do more damage to our electronics then vice versa.
A plane can endure riding through electrically charged storms, which is in my book a lot worse then a mobile phone.

Just some thoughts...
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Posted: 2004-02-06 13:26:33
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yeah I recall those laptop times but its been 3 years (or more) since I had a Nokia 9110 and you would have thought they would have got their act together by now.

Further more I am a private pilot myself and fly aircraft as large as a cessna 310 with some of the latest avionics and while not on the same level as the 737 I fly back and forth every week to Frankfurt I have never seen any anomolies in the instruments while using my phone prior to landing to let the missus know I am nearly there. Mind you, even I turn it off when flying in IMC (in bad weather)... just in case. but this is all not relevant when we are talking about flight mode anyway!

I just get the feeling for being 'caught' so much lately that they may be specifically looking for them now as I had no problem prior to that or last year with the P800
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Posted: 2004-02-06 13:36:05
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Yeah, sure sounds like they are looking for P800/P900 and probably Nokia Communicator just to annoy people. I don't think they check PDA and other handhelds which you can use as phones though.
They are too dumb to understand that "flight mode" is safe. Or just too precacious.

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Posted: 2004-02-06 13:37:40
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