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"Fatty" <bhemmings@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:429ed9e8$0$265$61c65585@uq-127creek-reader-03.brisbane.pipenetworks.com.au...
> Crosspost opportunity from aus.comms.mobile.
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> Uh how many people are going to percieve a mobile or PDA being in "flight
> mode" = turn your phone on but not making any calls :)
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> I'd prefer any devices that can potentially transmit GSM be totally 
> banned,
> due to some devices running accidentally running out of flight mode.

It's not like your plane is going to fall out of the sky. You don't 
seriously believe people don't accidentally leave their phones on anyway in 
aircraft EVERY SINGLE DAY, and I haven't had any Boeings in my backyard 
recently.

>> Nothing new.  Allowed already on most other airlines throughout the 
>> world,
>> and was previously allowed, then discontinued, on Qantas City Flyer
>> flights.
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>> I didn't even know there were such (idiotic) restrictions on flight mode.
> I
>> frequently have used PDAs, laptops and smartphones in the said manner on
>> numerous domestic and international flights and no-one has cared (and
>> rightly so).
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> "a_dude" <Nikos67@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1117456670.450964.135250@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,39194314,00.htm
>>
>> read all about it...comin June 7th only on Qantas...hmmm safest airline
>> they say hey...lets see
>>
>> cheers ;)
>>
>> and remember they said it was dangerous eh?...so u monkeys still
>> believe what TV and governments say?
>>
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