Sentences with phrase «devices during landing»

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The new rules generally add the ability for passengers to use their smartphones, e-readers, electronic games and tablets during taxi, takeoff and landing as long as they have the device in airplane mode with cellular service disabled.

Under the new guidelines, airlines whose planes are properly protected from electronic interference may allow passengers to use the devices during takeoffs, landings and taxiing, the FAA said.

Our in - flight personnel are trained to handle these situations with professionalism and discretion... As with other devices that have an on / off switch, customers will be asked not to use them during takeoff and landing.»

Travelers who want to read on an airplane during takeoff and landing, when you can't use electronic devices.

If their arguments are only that electronic devices «distract passengers from listening to safety announcements» and that they can «become dangerous projectiles», you might as well ban any good old paper book — which they have never banned during takeoff or landing.

Ever since the advent of e-readers and tablets, those devices have been forbidden during certain times in air travel, notably during take - off and landing, due to long - held fears that the devices would somehow interfere with guidance systems, plane control, and the sending and receiving of messages between the flight... [Read more...]

The U.S. government is moving toward easing restrictions on airline passengers using electronic devices to listen to music, play games, read books, watch movies and work during taxiing, takeoffs and landings.

Ever since the advent of e-readers and tablets, those devices have been forbidden during certain times in air travel, notably during take - off and landing, due to long - held fears that the devices would somehow interfere with guidance systems, plane control, and the sending and receiving of messages between the flight crew and the tower.

The new ruling marks an end to the usual practice of switching off electronic devices during take - off and landing phases, something that was often not followed.

Travelers who have spent much time in this air can probably recite the intercom warnings verbatim, reminding passengers that it is against Federal Aviation Association restrictions to use portable electronic devices during certain portions of the flight, namely during take - off and landing.

But it's not a fact of life; the FAA is rethinking its policy on using electronic devices during takeoff and landing.

In the future airlines will also conclude that you don't have to turn off a reading device during takeoff and landing.

Although they have never provided any evidence, the US Federal Aviation Administration («FAA») has always maintained having a Kindle, mp3 player, laptop, Game Boy, or any other electronic device — but not an electronic wristwatch or a pacemaker — could make an airplane crash during takeoff or landing, or at any altitude below 10,000 feet.

And oddly, passengers are asked to unplug all devices from on - board power outlets during take - off and landing.

The first batch of ASUS ZenFone 2 devices landed back in January 2015, and the highest - end device released during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January was the ZenFone 2 (ZE551ML), ASUS» flagship and the first 4 GB RAM smartphone in the world.