The F.A.A. says it will take a “fresh look” at the use of iPads on planes.

Re:The F.A.A. says it will take a “fresh look” at the use of... by baddox on Sunday March 18, 2012 @04:21PM (#3720799)

I'm pretty sure there have been enough people that ignore the rules and leave their devices on for us to be reasonably sure there's no substantial risk.

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Re:The F.A.A. says it will take a “fresh look” at the use of... by tzs on Sunday March 18, 2012 @04:40PM (#3720878)

Isn't it possible that 300 passengers using devices at the same time could pose substantially more risk than just a handful of people using devices?

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Re:The F.A.A. says it will take a “fresh look” at the use of... by baddox on Sunday March 18, 2012 @08:07PM (#3721559)

It's possible, but it's also possible that each passenger has ten iPads in their carry-on bag. Will they perform a test flight with 3,000 iPads? Not to mention how many more iPads could be stored in checked luggage.

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Re:The F.A.A. says it will take a “fresh look” at the use of... by mkramlich on Monday March 19, 2012 @06:19PM (#3726608)

3000 iPads * $800 per iPad = $240k

cost of plane itself + cost of all the human lives on it = many millions, or "priceless", right?

seems cheap in comparison. plus they don't need to perform this test on every plane before every single flight. only once or a few times, per model permutation. If you spread the testing cost across all the operational instances where they'd be de-risked, I bet it would be pennies per flight, at most.

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