Mobile phones 'safe to use during flights

Personally,all thanks to the group of researchers that put their heads together for revealing this information.Although,it will depend on the operators decision to allow it or not.But the good news is that you don't necessarily have to switch your phones to airplane mode if you choose the airplane operators that allow it.
For some who haven’t travelled by air,may not have the idea of how passengers feel when instructed to switch off their phones airplane mode.Imagine, a distance that last between 8-10 hours your phone becomes a moron.

Airline passengers will be able to use their mobile phones on aircraft throughout landing and take-off, as long as the airline chooses to allow it, after the European aviation regulator ruled that they do not pose a risk to aircraft safety.

 Airline passengers will be able to use their mobile phones throughout flights after the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) ruled that they do not pose a risk to aircraft safety.

Under current rules all passengers have to switch their mobile phones to “airplane mode” during take-off and landing, which switches off all transmitters and receivers, effectively making them nothing more than a handheld computer and unable to make phone calls, send text messages or transmit data.

But the EASA has now offered new guidance which allows airlines to change their own rules and allow mobile phones to be used “throughout the flight”.

It will be up to each airline to decide whether or not to allow the use of phones on board and each company will have to go through its own assessment process to ensure that their aircraft systems are not affected in any way by the transmission signals.

Once airlines have completed this safety assessment they will have to install additional equipment in order to provide customers with a signal because mobile phone transmitters cannot be reached from the high cruising altitudes that modern airliners reach.

EASA spokesperson Ilias Maragakis told the Telegraph that the latest guidance was “more about being able to offer gate-top-gate services”.
Although airlines have been able to offer customers the chance to use their phone during the cruising section of the flight for several years – something which Lufthansa and British Airways had already taken advantage of - it has been banned during landing and take-off until now.

“The bits at the beginning and the end are critical phases. You want to make sure that safety is not compromised in any way,” said Maragakis, who added that mobile phone use had now been conclusively proved safe throughout all portions of a flight.
It will take at least two months for the first airlines to pass the new safety assessments, he estimated.

Source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/11124126/Mobile-phones-safe-to-use-during-flights.html