If this is on the flight, it might be because the phone isn’t expending energy constantly trying to connect to networks when you are high up in the air or over the ocean. It makes a pretty big difference
Yup. Also when abroad in areas without roaming. That constant looking for signal drops it so fast. (Maybe this can be a TIL for someone with low percentage like me…)
You only really need to do it for take of and landing.
But you still don’t have data or GPS or anything and a lot of flights don’t have wifi so pretty useless unless you have offline games or downloaded shows/movies/audiobooks.
Idk I’ve never been able to get GPS on my phone to work on a plane always. I think consumer devices have it disabled over certain speeds/altitudes so people can’t make home made rockets and shit.
While that is true, commercial flights aren’t going over those limits (they’re to prevent ICBMs). I used it on my last flight without issue and could see how close to my destination I was, how high the plane was and how fast we were going.
Might just be my phone then… I fly pretty frequently and often check my phone to try and see how long it might be until landing but often it just shows the take off point
The last few flights I was on I didn’t notice them telling people to put phones in airplane mode, in contrast to years ago when they made a big deal about it. During landing they said to put laptops away but that small electronic devices could still be used, so if someone wanted to be on their phone the whole time nothing’s stopping them and no one is checking if it is in airplane mode. Although it would be pointless for most of the flight anyway because there is no signal. If you wanted to use the in-flight wifi, you can turn wifi on while airplane mode is on and that will work.
Nah. You know how you hear that noise through speakers of phones trying to connect through things? “Dukadukadukadrrrrr”
Yeah, that still floods the headsets as EMI and if it’s not that, it’s cuts and static noises.
It’s fucking infuriating. You gotta re-request comms off tower and that pisses off all the other comms traffic and AT. Especially on landing as everyone turns their phones on early. Sometimes it’s like trying to listen to your car’s navigation but suddenly you have three screamin toddlers in the back seat.
You have to switch the phone to airplane mode for the flight so it’s useless anyway.
Aside from, y’know, downloaded stuff. That said my phone lasts so much longer in airplane mode, it’s ridiculous.
If this is on the flight, it might be because the phone isn’t expending energy constantly trying to connect to networks when you are high up in the air or over the ocean. It makes a pretty big difference
Yup. Also when abroad in areas without roaming. That constant looking for signal drops it so fast. (Maybe this can be a TIL for someone with low percentage like me…)
Eh, I fly a lot and never switch it off
You only really need to do it for take of and landing.
But you still don’t have data or GPS or anything and a lot of flights don’t have wifi so pretty useless unless you have offline games or downloaded shows/movies/audiobooks.
You have GPS, it literally only receives so it can’t affect flight instruments.
Idk I’ve never been able to get GPS on my phone to work on a plane always. I think consumer devices have it disabled over certain speeds/altitudes so people can’t make home made rockets and shit.
While that is true, commercial flights aren’t going over those limits (they’re to prevent ICBMs). I used it on my last flight without issue and could see how close to my destination I was, how high the plane was and how fast we were going.
Might just be my phone then… I fly pretty frequently and often check my phone to try and see how long it might be until landing but often it just shows the take off point
The last few flights I was on I didn’t notice them telling people to put phones in airplane mode, in contrast to years ago when they made a big deal about it. During landing they said to put laptops away but that small electronic devices could still be used, so if someone wanted to be on their phone the whole time nothing’s stopping them and no one is checking if it is in airplane mode. Although it would be pointless for most of the flight anyway because there is no signal. If you wanted to use the in-flight wifi, you can turn wifi on while airplane mode is on and that will work.
That’s just government propaganda.
Nah. You know how you hear that noise through speakers of phones trying to connect through things? “Dukadukadukadrrrrr”
Yeah, that still floods the headsets as EMI and if it’s not that, it’s cuts and static noises.
It’s fucking infuriating. You gotta re-request comms off tower and that pisses off all the other comms traffic and AT. Especially on landing as everyone turns their phones on early. Sometimes it’s like trying to listen to your car’s navigation but suddenly you have three screamin toddlers in the back seat.
Don’t do it.
Sounds like a shitty plane that needs better emi shielding.
Sounds like that’s the pilot’s problem not mine.
If the pilot misses an instruction it could very quickly become your problem too.
That’s just more government propaganda.
To serve what end?
I couldn’t tell you that I’m not the government.
How do you know it’s propaganda?
What you’re saying isn’t adding up.
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