http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/ Switched Comments for JetBlue May Add In-Flight Text-Messaging http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/Mar 24th 2008 4:16PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/Now if they can eliminate carry on to only pocket books and brief cases, boarding and "de-planing" will be minutes. Jetblue is a great carrier.
I would also like to see BYOB of wine for air travel!!!Or a better wine selection! ]]>Apr 29th 2007 6:23AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/Apr 29th 2007 7:41AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/
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And Terrance, as far as your comments about JB recovering from the Feb storm, that was a small bilp on the radar. Their flights are still full, every one of them. so those that have chosen another carrier, have only allowed more people to fly on JB.]]>Apr 29th 2007 8:47AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/ First of all the odds of a cell phone disturbing the flight of an aircraft is slim. There is , however, a caviat. Most cell phone technology made in the USA or Japan is very well built and the electronics are very well shielded to prevent signals from being generated (harmonics) that would cause a problem for an airplane. However, Some cell phone technology comes from nations that use substandard shielding or none at all.
These phones would still have only a minor effect on older aircraft as they are not of the fly by wire technology. Fly by wire is a technology that uses electrical computer generated signals that when the pilot moves the control stick in the cockpit it isn't actually attached to the flight control by a steel cable. The control stick is a ttached to a flight data computer. This computer interprets what the pilot is saying by the amount and speed of the stick movement. This FDC then sends a signal to a Flight control computer via a data cable. This FCC then actually talks to a hydraulic system and tells that system to move the control. All of this at the speed of light. These computers can and have been effected by substandard cell phone technology. Fortunately the airplane was high enough that it was recoverable. So please if you get on any newer technology aircraft like an Airbus or a Boeing777, you don't want to take a chance that your phone has after market parts. You could pay the price you were not interested in paying when you bought it.]]>Apr 30th 2007 9:09PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/Apr 29th 2007 11:55AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/I've been text messaging from the air for years, I just hope the pilot isn't up front doing the same.]]>Apr 29th 2007 10:41AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/Apr 29th 2007 10:43AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/]]>Apr 29th 2007 10:43AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/
Whether cell phones will work from an airplane or not has never been the question, but rather what the impact would be to the ground based network. Whether the cell phones are analog or digital, whether they are being used for text messaging or not, or even if the cell phone is simply turned on, it is creating a problem on the ground as the towers track the phone and hand it off to the next tower that has the greatest signal strength. Unfortunately, unlike when you are on the ground, instead of three or five towers tracking your phone, you may have as many as 200. Ever try and make a call and there are no circuits available? Did you just assume it was a lot of people making calls at the same time from the same general area? Ask your cell phone carrier what the capacity of a single tower is and then ask whether you are in an airport flight path or FAA city pair route. You are probably already seeing the effects of people who don't bother to turn off their cell phones or have decided that they are special and can use their phone for calls or text messaging even though they have been asked to turn them off.

The use of any electronic device during takeoff and landing is an FAA requirement because of two major incidents caused by onboard consumer electronic devices. One affecting a British Air flight and the other a Continental flight. Rather than even attempt to identify which cell phones, gameboys, iPods, MP3 playes, CD players, et al that might be affecting the navigation equipment, without even getting into those devices that are not working according to their manufactured radtiating frequencies, the FAA has decided to err (thankfully) on the side of caution and turn off all consumer electronic devices during takeoff and landing. After the plane is down, the risk is over and it is fine to allow people to use cell phones to call whoever they would like, but not until then.]]>Apr 29th 2007 11:08AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/Apr 29th 2007 11:11AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/Apr 29th 2007 11:23AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/Apr 29th 2007 11:42AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/Apr 29th 2007 11:47AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/Why do people feel the need to yell into their cellphone? Do they do this on the phone at home?
People have lost their civility & we need to have rules to control them.]]>Apr 29th 2007 11:54AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/
What a comment. How does one determine which calls are obnoxious and which aren't? And who would ever admit to being a cell phone boor, especially in this age of entitlement and "me first" attitude. Keep the cell phones off the planes, period. For years people existed without them, and it's not the end of the world if someone has to wait for a phone call.]]>Apr 29th 2007 12:11PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/Apr 29th 2007 12:02PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/Apr 29th 2007 1:09PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/24/jet-blue-may-add-in-flight-texting/Apr 29th 2007 1:25PM