AOPA urges allowing cell phone use in general aviation

That's my point. How do you police it?
How many of us have a phone that has no web capabilities?
Will CDs & OOs check every cell phone carried in a contest/badge attempt?
We're gonna put public key encryption on the logger files but have no way of
preventing a pilot from getting state of the art weather data in flight?

Please note - I'm not arguing for increasing regulation, I'm arguing for
recognizing that honor is what all of our claims ultimately rest upon.


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For Example John Smith wrote:
Looks like my PDA/phone has some new uses--in-flight weather.
Raises an issue for contests (and badges too?)--can I use my phone to
get
weather info in-flight? If no, we may have an honor system issue
bigger
than the security of flight loggers--I need to carry a phone to call
my crew
if I land out, but my phone can also give me blipmaps, radar and
other data
and data representations. How would we police this other than the
honor
system?




Check the 2005 rules for the U.S. on SRA, this isn't allowed.