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Airline experts set to ring the changes on mobiles
Using a mobile phone is banned on aircraft but soon travellers could be talking and texting in the air just as much as they do on terra firma.
Airlines in America are working on in-flight phone systems that could be up and running in a couple of years’ time.
American Airlines has unveiled a new system and Airbus is working on one too, a BBC News report says.
Mobiles are proscribed because experts believe the radio waves they emit can interfere with the two-way radio used by pilots, and can skew avionics, the electronic systems which control aircraft.
In Britain, the Civil Aviation Authority claims that research has shown navigation equipment could be thrown out by as much as five degrees by mobile phone signals.
Most airlines also bar passengers from using certain electronic games, although laptops, palmtops and MP3 players are permitted at times other than take-off and landing. But the rules vary from airline to airline, which often prompts flare-ups between passengers and cabin crew.
Aviation experts in the US are due to come up with recommendations for a new set of rules later this year.
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