Timeline for What can passengers do if they realise their plane is not on the right path?
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| Sep 21, 2015 at 16:47 | comment | added | reirab | @JacobKrall Hmm... Interesting link, but it seems a bit dated. Many of the airlines on those lists don't even still exist. I'm especially surprised to see Northwest on there, since Delta bought them 7 years ago and even their brand name hasn't existed for over 5 years now. I suspect that the rise in smartphone usage (nearly all of which are GPS capable, at least in the case of the ones sold in the U.S. market,) almost any airline would allow it nowadays and most wouldn't know the difference even if they didn't allow it. A lot of them even show you the flight's position and velocity on the IFE. | |
| Sep 21, 2015 at 16:07 | comment | added | Jacob Krall | @reirab: here is a list (as of 2010) categorizing airlines on whether or not they allow the use of GPS receivers in flight: gpsinformation.net/airgps/airgps.htm | |
| Sep 22, 2014 at 19:37 | comment | added | reirab | "Which is no doubt one of the reasons they don't like passengers using handheld GPS devices (quite apart from the blanket ban on anything that has an antenna)." Where is such a ban in place? Certainly not in the U.S. They're not even banned under 10,000 ft. anymore in the U.S. I've used the GPS on my phone on board an aircraft numerous times. No one cared. It should be noted that GPS receivers are just that - receivers. They don't transmit anything, so they were never banned along with transmitting devices like cell phones and wifi. | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 11:44 | history | answered | jwenting | CC BY-SA 3.0 |