Why do you REALLY have to turn off iPods on aeroplanes?
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It is to keep everything consistent, airline's like to keep things simple. The reason, is for your safety, so you can hear the emergency announcements in the unlikely event that there is an emergency. Not all passengers know how an ipod works, and if you tell the guy next to you to turn off his cell phone, but don't tell you to turn off your ipod. then we'll probably have some drama. So in order to keep it consistent everyone must turn off 'all' electronic devises. In you case with it being a short flight, they are not going to anyone use their electronic devises because by the time you get it out, it's time to put it away. because take off and landing are the most likely times that you will have an emergency and need to be able to hear the crew members instructions. Also, the flight attendant most likely knew the real reason , but wanted to keep the answer short and sweet and move one. I doubt she/he did it to be rude, but just to save her/himself from the sake of argument.
you know i seen this on "mythbusters". i dont know if you ever heard of the show but it puts myths to the test to see if they are true or not. they did this one with the ipods and cell phones. they had no interferences. this is just a myth. it does nothing to the "bits" in the plane. i have no idea why they tell you to turn it off. i guess its just too risky not to incase something does happen.
It is because the money grabbing gits want you to spend £2 a time on THEIR headphones !
Thats the only thing i can think of !!
One device doesn't do too much to with interference, but if everyone had one on, it would. Plus, prolonged use of your ipod could ruin it because of the radio waves used on planes, so i'd be careful not to use it too much.
They made me turn mine off! It's not as if an iPod or anyother MP3 player transmits anything is it! I was outraged, it was either listen to my iPod or watch friggin Lilo and Stitch, if they arn't gonna let us listen to music then PLEASE watch a film that everyone likes!!
So you can listen to safety instructions
The most dangerous parts of flying are landing and taking off, this is when they usually tell you to turn off "devices" as if something is to happen you will be more aware of it, than if you've got 100dB of Metallica screaming out of your ipod !
I've never been asked to turn my ipod off for the whole journey though.
I went to Barcelona from London this year, and had my iPod on for a good hour, and no one told me to turn it off, and a few other people had iPod's as well. I suppose different planes require you to turn off all electronic devices, like Gameboys, and whatnot.
I think there is some kind of magnetic field on the iPod or something like that which interferes with the engines or something, that or the cabin crew are spiteful.
From Ireland (northen inc.) its Irish Air Policy for ALL
electronics to be turned off.
Just their policy
It's amazing to me why they do that to passengers. The electonics on an aircraft operate at much higher frequencies than any 'personal' electronics.
because Apple just lose to Creative Technology a lot money, hence i think they r supportors of Creative.
Or maybe they dunno wat is IPOD instead they thought it is Handphone.
It is not cos they want you to buy there headphones.cos your ones work in the sockets. Its not cos it interferes cos it not a tranmitting device. Its not cos we are jealous cos we get to fly all over the world for free and stay in posh hotels and sleep with Air-hostesses.lovin it. It is incase there is an emergency announcement such as.."BRACE BRACE" or "WERE GOING DOWN".lol.
No portable electronic devices are allowed to be operating when the aircraft is in flying IFR (instrument flight rules). Airliners are alwas on an IFR flight plan. There are some devices that do interfere with the navigation equipment and some that dont. But to make it easy, the FAA just says ALL. I dont know about you but I'd be happy to turn my ipod off for takeoff of landing in the clouds. Not to happy about the idea of running into a mountain.
One time I accidently left my cell phone on on a personal IFR flight. I kept hearing the weird buzz over the radio. Turned out that happened every time I received a call.
A device with a spinning disk or drive creates a magnetic field maybe a small one but it may throw off ILS or compass. 3 degrees can translate to 100 miles off over 1000 mile trip.
During Take-offs and Landings only. just like any other electrical equipment.
They think it may interfere with instruments on the flight deck
iPods generate very little, if any electromagnetic fields outside and it is almost unconceivable that it will interfere with anything. (the same can not be said with cell-phones and simple radios)
But, remember, the airline is responsible for multi-hundred million dollar piece of equipment and hundreds of lives. In order for them to say, it is safe to be used, they have to certify each model, and each production year for it might change. It is simply too cost prohibitive to do so. It also mean, they have to have an extensive list of approved equipment also.
In addtion, take offs and landings are the most dangerous part of the flight as there is no margin of safety afforded by height. Should something happen, the crew needs every bit of your attention without worrying about you may not hear it for your earphones and music.
Plus, it shouldn't be too much of burden to turn it off for few minutes or few hours for exchange in preventing even a remote possibility of catastrophic problems.
Ok, obviously no one watches the news. There was a recent terror plot that was foiled. They were gonna detonate toothpaste tubes filled with explosives with the electrical shock from a small device such as an iPod. Once this was discovered, no liquids of any form were allowed on planes, and people were told to turn off their electronic devices.
Any electronic device will interfere with an aircraft's navigation systems. However if u reallly want to listen, do it when u are cruising (Not ascending or decsending, just flying level).
No, you don't have to.
Firstly, your iPod is not a transmitter device of any kind. Its a common misconception that ANY electronic device can cause interference with an aircraft's equipment.
Secondly, you won't be anywhere near the sensitive parts, since they are all adequately shielded from external electro-magnetic interferences.
Generally, to really cause interference with the aircraft's electronics, your handheld devices needs to be operating at a really high frequency or one that is strong enough to override the signal strength of the one in use by the aircraft. That's why most of the cables on an aircraft are all covered in thick and heavy insulation.
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P.S: I have tried using an iPod during a sortie, and nothing happened. It was intentionally left on during my take-off and landing sequence and nothing was amiss.
Hope this will give you a peace of mind and dispel any wrong ideas.
just buy the head phones hon saves lots of problems
Although studies have been done related to electronics devices on airplanes, airlines still tell the passengers to turn off all electronic devices as a precaution. They do this in order to prevent any sort of dinterference, regardless of the determined risk of such electronic units.
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