The pilot revealed why you should put your phone on airplane mode when traveling by plane. , this function has an important purpose, while its neglect can endanger all passengers on board. Why should you pay attention to it?
The veteran pilot, who goes by the name @perchpoint on TikTok, recently went viral after answered a common question, why do we have to switch our cell phones to flight mode before the plane takes off. In the video, which received almost 800,000 views, explained that this function is extremely important.
Although, according to him, forgetting about this protocol will not cause onboard systems to collapse or the aircraft to accidentally fall out of the skyif a large number of passengers miss this step, it can disrupt the pilots’ radio communication with the control tower.
“If you have a plane with 150 people on board, even three or four people’s cell phones with the signal on will start to establish a connection with the tower. This will send out radio waves that they can degrade the sound quality in the set used by the pilots“, he explained.
You pilot later he also mentioned a recent flight during which he wore headphones to find out from the control tower which way to go. Eventually, due to these radio waves, he felt as if he had a mosquito in his ears, which made him almost unable to hear anything. “It’s certainly not catastrophic, but it’s pretty annoying when you’re trying to get directions and it sounds like mosquitoes are flying around you. So if someone you it will ask why to use flight mode, well for this very reason“, he noted.
In the plane, it is necessary to turn on the flight mode on the phone.
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In some countries you would passengers should also be careful not to accidentally break the law. For example in the USA there is a regulation that requires passengers to switch their phones to flight mode during flight.
“They must not be used when these aircraft are in the air, meaning they are not touching the ground. When any aircraft takes off, all mobile phones on board must be in this mode,” according to the US Code of Federal Regulations.
