Distracted Flying?

Geico266 said:
We all have seen drivers texting, tweeting, Facebooking, emailing, etc. What about flying? Do you text while flying?

Please don't be that guy! Drive the car or fly the plane. ;)


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-06-11/stricter-mobile-phone-laws/55822706/1
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I don't text while driving, but I do text while flying. Only in cruise when I have signal. Helps a lot with coordination on the ground. Same thing as reading a book or magazine, sleeping, whatever else IMO.
 
I text while driving all the time.

Of course, when my phone links to the bluetooth sound system, it switches to a mode where it announces texts and reads them to me, then I can dictate a text to it, and it sends it. Phone never comes off the belt.

Windows Phone. Good stuff.
 
I hate to say it, but....

Yeah I do talk on the radio while flying. And sometimes I even write things and look at maps.
 
In most areas of the southwest, texting or talking on a cell phone in flight isn't an option


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I figure with all the E6B work I had to do in flight, I was trained to text while flying.
 
MAKG1 said:
I would imagine he wasn't much help with the traffic scan.
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It was EdFred and I'm sure he was scanning out of the corner of his eye. I forget if we had FF or not. We were on a three hour cross country flight to a POA fly-in.

I think the iPad was just a pretend way of making me feel like I was flying a complex plane all by myself. I had gotten my cert only a day or two before and technically that was my first flight as a private pilot and the most expensive, fanciest plane I'd been in to date.
 
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