Jerry Brito on Cellphones in Airplanes

When it was announced last
month that the Federal Aviation Administration was relaxing the
rules on personal electronic devices during take-off and landing on
commercial passenger flights, Americans rejoiced. No longer would
we have to suffer the indignity of staring blankly at the tray
table before us for the 15 minutes it takes a flight to reach
cruising altitude, or worse, touch ink-stained dead tree bits to
occupy ourselves. Yet, notes Jerry Brito, when the Federal
Communications Commission soon thereafter similarly announced that
it to was reconsidering its prohibitions on in-flight cell phone
use, all hell broke loose. Let’s give it a try before freaking out,
he suggests.

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