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Not since a while.
Officially you should set them in airplane mode at take off and landing; I suspect 99% of the phones are still open anyway.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Okay, I am not flying that often. This was a rubbish rule anyway, so...
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On private planes that is not a requirement and I know of no incidents ever caused by a cellular phone on an airplane. I fly on our corporate planes occasionally and I have seen pilots in the cockpits on their phones. We get no service at altitude so I'm not sure what they were doing.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: We get no service at altitude so I'm not sure what they were doing.
Playing Candy Crush?  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Playing Candy Crush?
Better than flying! 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Marketing wrote: and it will even tell passengers when they need to drink water.
Humans have a built-in sensor for that, known as "thirst".
..and water? Do I look like a plant or a pet?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Do I look like a plant or a pet?
Do you really asking us to vote on that (possibly Monday survey ? !) or would you like to decide for yourself?
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A rethorical question, so no answer expected.
..but it does make me curious what the monday-survey would judge
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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No sense holding back. Volunteer for the input of the lounges in judging your animal, vegetable, mineral (or a derived class).
Non-rhetorical: what have you got to lose?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Non-rhetorical: what have you got to lose?
Nothing. Amazed at how quick this turned
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Breath in Deeply
Savor the Chaos!
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Well - I don't have such a phone. Perhaps they'll do for that what they do for earphones and give them out to the passengers. Kind of a disposable cell phone. Or maybe even build it into the seat (or was that already mentioned).
Someone call it artisanal seating.
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Ha, yes, if you dont have a smart phone you are f***ed and have to spend 10 hours folded in half!
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Sounds like an excuse they'll give you to install an app on your phone just so they can take a peek at whatever else you've got stored on it. Really, is there any other purpose?
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dandy72 wrote: so they can take a peek at whatever else you've got stored on it
Me: *Installs their app*
Them: "Sir, we kindly ask you to leave the plain and don't touch anything on your way out."
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Sander Rossel wrote: leave the plain
Surely they can ask you to leave the plane, and they don't have jurisdiction over the entire plain? That's a pretty big area, especially if you happen to be around central US...
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I'm sorry, I forgot a word.
I meant to type "leave the plain plane" as I think having apps in planes will become the standard 
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That's the final straw, no more flying for me, my next holiday will be by car to Jutland 
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Isnt Jutland like Zeeland?
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Yes, that's why it is so likeable, but for me the big difference is that it is less crowded in Denmark and everything is very relaxed. It reminds me of the Netherlands of the past 
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I went to Zeeland once, Vlissingem, it's a nice place, but I have never been north of there, never seen Frisia, Denmark, never been to Heligoland, Norway, or Sweden. Perhaps it is all just too much like England to really motivate me, you know, you want to see something different when you travel.
I would have liked to have tried talking to a Frislander too, I hear English and Fris is very close.
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I have a Frisian friend, but when he starts talking Frisian I can't make heads or tails of it. Nevertheless Friesland can be attractive if you like sailing and skating, and they have some nice historic cities like Leeuwarden. Recently I also viewed "Redbad" the series on tv which is about the war between the Frisians and the Franks: Redbad, King of the Frisians - Wikipedia[^]
Can not recommend the series though, although the photography is first class, the story is weak and lacking direction and the low rating on IMDB says enough: Redbad (2018) - IMDb[^]
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RickZeeland wrote: I can't make heads or tails of it.
I would have thought it half Dutch half English and therefore fairly easy for someone like you, but I guess not.
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Well I for one think it is a fantastic idea. Being too large and inflexible to lean down and twist my head far enough so that I can read the bloody fine print or hieroglyphic underneath the button is just not possible for me.
I have to stand, turn around and kneel to locate the buttons, retain the configuration, sit down and set the buttons by feel and memory. As a consequence I only ever use the big round button for seat up/down.
So you skinny little bugger leave the airline alone so they can give better service to us fat slobs who fly.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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