Texting and Flying??

[redbull]

Anyone do this, while taxiing or flying in the lower levels???

[SAR_YQQ]

I've done it while on AP flying overhead Revelstoke, BC at 16,000'. Had connection with a tower for about 15secs - enough time to send off a tweet.

[Brewhouse]

Sure all the time, whats the big deal? Sometimes I talk on the sat phone while texting and smoking a cigarette.

[Big Pistons Forever]

Anyone do this, while taxiing ???

You are kidding I hope ............

[into the blue]

Anyone do this, while taxiing or flying in the lower levels???

Why?

[Lurch]

[Tim]

maybe you should put some context behind this question...

[all_ramped_up]

i do if i'm in the back or in the jumpseat.

can have a blackberry messenger convo for most of the trip from YDF-YYT at FL200. same with YZV-YUL.

[Meatservo]

Not that any of them have ever tried, but if I catch a copilot texting in flight, he or she will be stopping before the device in question goes out the storm window. If you got time for that crap, you've got time to pull out a map, get busy on the journey log or go aft and roll up Herc. straps.

Maybe I'm just a son-of-a bitch.

[human garbage]

Not on the ground no, but in cruise sure. How else are you supposed to keep the flight follower in the loop with no sat phone?

[Geko]

No. I had an instructor do this on a my night cross country flight, last time I ever flew with him.

[Brewhouse]

Not that any of them have ever tried, but if I catch a copilot texting in flight, he or she will be stopping before the device in question goes out the storm window. If you got time for that crap, you've got time to pull out a map, get busy on the journey log or go aft and roll up Herc. straps.

Maybe I'm just a son-of-a bitch.

You sure your handle isn't meat head? I've met guys like you big watch fancy sunglasses and so insecure in your flying ability you have to be a dick to your FO's to cover for your shortfalls.

[SAR_YQQ]

Not that any of them have ever tried, but if I catch a copilot texting in flight, he or she will be stopping before the device in question goes out the storm window. If you got time for that crap, you've got time to pull out a map, get busy on the journey log or go aft and roll up Herc. straps.

You telling me that every second of in-flight is occupied 100% of the time with cockpit related duties - I smell something...

[Tim]

Not that any of them have ever tried, but if I catch a copilot texting in flight, he or she will be stopping before the device in question goes out the storm window. If you got time for that crap, you've got time to pull out a map, get busy on the journey log or go aft and roll up Herc. straps.

Maybe I'm just a son-of-a bitch.

what would you do if you were flying with another capt and he did it? (i mean at cruise, not during taxi or low level...)

[Meatservo]

Not that any of them have ever tried, but if I catch a copilot texting in flight, he or she will be stopping before the device in question goes out the storm window. If you got time for that crap, you've got time to pull out a map, get busy on the journey log or go aft and roll up Herc. straps.

Maybe I'm just a son-of-a bitch.

You sure your handle isn't meat head? I've met guys like you big watch fancy sunglasses and so insecure in your flying ability you have to be a dick to your FO's to cover for your shortfalls.

Yeah, that's me, all right!

When you and your friends are done watching "twilight" and "tweeting" each other, why don't you get a job that keeps your mind occupied?

Meat head

[Tim]

Yeah, that's me, all right!

When you and your friends are done watching "twilight" and "tweeting" each other, why don't you get a job that keeps your mind occupied?

Meat head

brewhouse's comment was a little over the top...but are you more concerned with the flight safety aspect of texting in cruise or with the 'you damn kids and your tweeting and texting' aspect? it sounds like the latter...

what's your reason against it?

[Brewhouse]

Not that any of them have ever tried, but if I catch a copilot texting in flight, he or she will be stopping before the device in question goes out the storm window. If you got time for that crap, you've got time to pull out a map, get busy on the journey log or go aft and roll up Herc. straps.

Maybe I'm just a son-of-a bitch.

You sure your handle isn't meat head? I've met guys like you big watch fancy sunglasses and so insecure in your flying ability you have to be a dick to your FO's to cover for your shortfalls.

Yeah, that's me, all right!

When you and your friends are done watching "twilight" and "tweeting" each other, why don't you get a job that keeps your mind occupied?



Meat head

Get a job like yours hauling fright two crew in a non pressurized aircraft? I don't know what you do whilst flying but does cruise keep your mind occupied? I'm not sure what twilight tweeting is, sounds like some type of drug you smoke just before dark. Is that your problem, you should lay off that shit it kills brain cells and makes it hard to multi task.

[Meatservo]

Actually Tim, you might be closer to the truth than I would normally admit, but..

What IS with the damn kids and their texting and tweeting? You can't have a conversation with someone under 30 without seeing them sneaking covert glances at the screen of their mobile phone, which they hold cupped below your sight-line as if they think you're too dumb to see them. It's rude. And doing it in the cockpit is the airborne equivalent of office workers blabbing on an internet gossip site like this one or sending silly faxes to other offices when the boss' back is turned. Or passing notes in class. It's puerile. No-one needs to be that closely connected with their friends. It speaks to a lack of interest in the task at hand.

One exception I have heard so far is the guy who fires a text off to his flight follower. Fair enough. But you and I both know the main people objecting to some heavy-handed Captain tramping on their good-time texting are mostly interested in sending "OMFG"s and "I was all, and then she was like,"...etc. to their friends. I think most of these people know they are being impolite and they don't care, because the technology is so new it hasn't developed any etiquette yet. Maybe that's why I object to it. It's like whispering in public.

Damn kids and their tweeting and texting. I think it kills brain cells.

edited for length.

[SAR_YQQ]

texting are mostly interested in sending "OMFG"s and "I was all, and then she was like,"...etc. to their friends.

You've got the lingo down-pat, you sure that you're not a "closet tweeter"?

[. ._]

Texting and talking while doing everything is the new norm. Make peace with that, and you'll be happier. We're not gonna go back to rotary dial land lines any time soon.

My $0.02.

-istp

[MrWings]

you sure that you're not a "closet tweeter"?

I think you can go blind from doing that.

[Heliian]

There actually has been an accident attributed to texting while flying. I can't remember what country but some cool guy flying in a piston helicopter(robinson of some sort) sent a text to his buddy 45 seconds before he planted into the sea. They figure that with his hands occupied, he wasn't able to react properly to a gust and lost control.

If you're at work in the cockpit and you start tweeting and sexting while the other person is flying, you are just as douchey as any employee wasting time with their damn phones at work. You like phones that much, become a secretary.

[JerryRig]

Actually Tim, you might be closer to the truth than I would normally admit, but..

What IS with the damn kids and their texting and tweeting? You can't have a conversation with someone under 30 without seeing them sneaking covert glances at the screen of their mobile phone, which they hold cupped below your sight-line as if they think you're too dumb to see them. It's rude. And doing it in the cockpit is the airborne equivalent of office workers blabbing on an internet gossip site like this one or sending silly faxes to other offices when the boss' back is turned. Or passing notes in class. It's puerile. No-one needs to be that closely connected with their friends. It speaks to a lack of interest in the task at hand.

One exception I have heard so far is the guy who fires a text off to his flight follower. Fair enough. But you and I both know the main people objecting to some heavy-handed Captain tramping on their good-time texting are mostly interested in sending "OMFG"s and "I was all, and then she was like,"...etc. to their friends. I think most of these people know they are being impolite and they don't care, because the technology is so new it hasn't developed any etiquette yet. Maybe that's why I object to it. It's like whispering in public.

Damn kids and their tweeting and texting. I think it kills brain cells.

edited for length.

(I think I just realized I may have flown with 'Meathead' quite a bit in the recent past.)

Although I disagree with with his initial delivery on this, I do agree with his sentiment and point. Maybe I'm becoming more of an old fart than I'd like to admit.
+1

JR

[PanEuropean]

Where I work, we have put a line on the pre-start checklist that reads "Mobile Phones - OFF".

However, we range in age from 50 to 70, so, I guess we are the opposite of the younger crowd - we don't like to have the phone vibrating or ringing once we get down to the business of flying the plane. But, we will occasionally turn a phone back on to send a SMS to the destination if we are running late, or need to make a special request, etc... it's faster to do that than it is to ask FSS to relay a message by phone.

What is this "twitter" and "tweet" stuff you are talking about?

Michael

[Louis]

I've sent an SMS to notify the boss of a complete electrical failure and of my intentions once. Much more reliable than trying to talk on the cellphone in a noisy environment with intermittent signal reception.

Otherwise, there's a matter of etiquette and safety involved.