No more GPS on flights?

 

Due to the recent incidents in Detroit, security officials are requiring airlines to enforce stricter security measures during the last hour of flights. One of those new restrictions is to disable the GPS or map progress displays that some airlines have. If they make the airlines turn off the display, they for sure won't allow personal GPS use, either.

New rules for the last hour of a flight:
No electronics use.
Must remain in your seat - no bathroom trips during the last hour.
May not have anything on your lap.
Airline may not display your position or progress on a map.
Airline may not announce your exact arrival time.

I can see a day coming when it's like the SF movies about space travel. They will just put us all into suspended animation during the flight and wake us up when we get there. rolleyes

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Government

I've been saying for many years now that nothing is worse than an idiot or moron with power. As of recent times I must add "chicken littles". What is really bad is that these collective imbeciles are in complete control.

Not always banned

In 2006 I made several trips with plane changes with UA and USAIR. I used my handheld on every flight. On one approach to Denver the attendant did not tell me to turn it off. I've heard that was not typical however.

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Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines specifically allows GPS units on all flights. It says so in their onboard magazine.
Jen

in the name of safety...

cheweez78 wrote:

one more freedom taken away. What's next, chaining passengers to their seats like the amusement parks?

probably... plus x-ray and cat-scan...

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No bathroom?

You gotta be kidding me, no bathroom for an hour? I wonder the sanity of the person who came up this idea.

Can't wait to see it on the news

Wait till someone can't wait and goes in the seat. Government stupidity at it's finest. We are supposed to trust the pilot and flight attendants with our lives but unfortunately they are evidently too stupid according to our government to decide who and who can't go to the restroom or what does or does not constitute an emergency.

Potty humor!

Frside007 wrote:

Wait till someone can't wait and goes in the seat.

My guess is that the unfortunate soul who can't hold his water will find himself arrested for interfering with a flight crew. sad

I guess

scott_dog wrote:
Frside007 wrote:

Wait till someone can't wait and goes in the seat.

My guess is that the unfortunate soul who can't hold his water will find himself arrested for interfering with a flight crew. sad

I guess soon the airlines will start selling adult diaper on flight. smile

Silly Me

spokybob wrote:

I used my handheld on every flight. On one approach to Denver the attendant did not tell me to turn it off.

All this time I assumed when the stew---er, flight attendant announced we were landing and all electronic devices must be turned off it included my GPS. Landing would be the best part of the trip to watch! wink

Cheers

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Bargains

jeffH70 wrote:
scott_dog wrote:
Frside007 wrote:

Wait till someone can't wait and goes in the seat.

My guess is that the unfortunate soul who can't hold his water will find himself arrested for interfering with a flight crew. sad

I guess soon the airlines will start selling adult diaper on flight. smile

At $29.95, cheap at twice the price!

Although there was a flurry of discussion about this after the Xmas incident, has anyone actually confirmed these rules are put in place? Some places I read said they expired Jan. 1 and stuff is back the way it was.

well...

well...how big is it to wait and relax on a several hour flight, then begin the gps when you leave the plane. Really, how long does it take the unit to find the location...not the whole flight.

Travel Safe Activities

No worries...that last hour of your flight doesn't need to be dull. Here are some Travel Safe Activities (TSA) you can still engage in during that last hour.: http://funwithtsa.com/

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An hour?

jeffH70 wrote:

You gotta be kidding me, no bathroom for an hour? I wonder the sanity of the person who came up this idea.

Who can't hold it for an hour?

That would be you, next time you fly

franzey wrote:
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You gotta be kidding me, no bathroom for an hour?

Who can't hold it for an hour?

Congratulations. You've just doomed yourself to an agonizing flight under the Dagarmin Law of Discompassion which says that when you lack compassion for the suffering of fellow human beings, you will soon suffer their fate. It will play out as follows. You'll get up in the morning, drink a large coffee, be approaching the security check when you find an unopened beverage bottle you'd forgotten about, decide to guzzle it to hydrate up for the flight, strap yourself in, take off into the stormy skies and be stuck in your seat in absolute agony, because... you Have To Go. Try not to think about how full your bladder is. Thinking about it only makes your urge To Go worse.

laugh out loud

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I gotta pee.....

franzey wrote:
jeffH70 wrote:

You gotta be kidding me, no bathroom for an hour? I wonder the sanity of the person who came up this idea.

Who can't hold it for an hour?

It's the pilo--er, person who sat at hte bar and drank a whole bottle of scotch right before the boarding was announced. Or the person that guzzled a bunch of water and then fell asleep only to wake up within that 1 hour "no bathroom" window, with a bladder the size of Texas.

If you search on The Consumerist site, there are complaints from the past several years about people boarding the flight and their assigned seat is soaked with some kind of fluid. Some of the reports said that it was in fact urine. But because the flight was booked the person was given a plastic bag to place over the seat and then still had to sit in that seat. UGH....

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Some airlines already

Some airlines already restrict GPS use for lame reasons. They are really getting stupid on what they call "security". I wonder if they can figure out that folks can tell where they are, certainly on clear days, just by looking out the window or how far along they are on a regularly scheduled flight!

Actually, my GPS is my MP3 player on a flight so it usually ends up on regardless....

Flight Rules

An hour sure is a long time to tell a kid he can't go the the bathroom, Maybe that means no more small children allowed.

Not surprising

For those who've never seen it, I very much recommend a TV show that aired in the UK during the '80s called "Yes, Minister." The following is a quote from the show (actually, from its followup, "Yes, Prime Minister").

Quick explanation about the characters: Sir Humphrey is the Cabinet Secretary and the cynical, obfuscatory, manipulative head of the civil service; Bernard Woolley is the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister.

Sir Humphrey: "Bernard, what is the purpose of our defence policy?"
Bernard Woolley: "To defend Britain."
Sir Humphrey: "No, Bernard. It is to make people believe Britain is defended."
Bernard Woolley: "The Russians?"
Sir Humphrey: "Not the Russians, the British! The Britain know it is not."

Replace "defence policy" with "TSA," "Britain/British" with "America/Americans," and "Russians" with "terrorists," and it applies exactly.

False security

mmullins98 wrote:

Just the last hour so the plane can't be blown up over the United States. Idiots that think someone would not go into the toilet an hour and fifteen minutes before landing to set up something instead of say 45 minutes before are who is letting the terrorists get away with this fear factor. Knee jerking just to get something out in an attempt to ease the fear doesn't cut it.
I don't have the answer but if I did they wouldn't listen anyway.

It seems like false security to me. The bad guys will find a way around the rule. Meanwhile the poor passengers are strapped to their seats for an hour and can't even go to the bathroom.

GPS use on planes

Jet Blue has Mapquest on all flights. It will show you right where you are and the direction the plane is going. You can watch the plane circle for landing.

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Airplane Security

Why is it I gotta go when I know there is no place to go ?

interference

Have they ever proved that such devices interfere with their equipment?

New Rules

johnc wrote:

Due to the recent incidents in Detroit, security officials are requiring airlines to enforce stricter security measures during the last hour of flights...

Must remain in your seat - no bathroom trips during the last hour...

This is just the start of another financial grab by the airlines. The hidden agenda is to sell passengers a Private Individual Sanitary System bag.

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One hour rule no longer enforced

salleentn wrote:

An hour sure is a long time to tell a kid he can't go the the bathroom, Maybe that means no more small children allowed.

You (and the others posting here in the past week as if this rule is still being enforced) do realize this is an old thread dating back to the aftermath of the attempted bombing on Christmas Day of a flight heading into Detroit, yes? The one-hour lockdown rule was imposed December 26th and was only enforced consistently for two days. It was still imposed on some flights in the days following that, but now, it's faded out, although pilots of course retain the discretion to use it if they want. They generally don't. It was wildly unpopular with passengers and was seen as only a short-term effort to change up any previously planned follow-up attacks.

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