"Benjamin Dover" wrote in message
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> Mxsmanic wrote in
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>> ywell85@yahoo.com writes:
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>>> Federal Aviation Administration regulations prohibit any use of mobile
>>> phones except when the aircraft is on the ground.
>>
>> Which FAR is that?
>>
>
> The FARs are online. Try searching them.
You, too. Knock yourself out, in fact. The FARs are
contained within Title 14 ("Aeronautics and Space") of
the Code of Federal Regulations, and you can find
a link to a searchable form of that here:
http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/faa_regulations/
If you can find the words "cell phone, "cellular telephone,"
"cellular phone," "mobile telephone," or "mobile phone"
anywhere in 14 CFR, you're doing better than I could.
(Hint: have you noticed how some carriers are already
working on systems which would permit in-flight cell-phone
use?)
The basis for restricting cell phone use (or for that matter,
the use of any particular electronic device) in flight is
not a specific FAA regulation pertaining to those devices,
but rather the authorization by the FAA to the airlines to
make their own regulations/restrictions as they see fit to
ensure flight safety, per THEIR judgement.
The GOVERNMENT'S main concern re cell phones
specifically - above and beyond the airlines' own
restrictions re potential interference with avionics -
has to do with the potential havoc this MIGHT raise
with the ground-based cell system (i.e., in-flight phones
talking to multiple "cells" simultaneously). And that's an
FCC issue, not an FAA one.
Bob M.
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