07-06-2021, 10:52 AM
(07-06-2021, 09:45 AM)TRS-80 Wrote: [0] For anyone who may be unaware, holding a phone in your hand is now illegal in almost every state in USA.
Yup--I think you can still hold a map or have a conversation with a passenger in the car (found to be highly distracting and the reason the FAA, many years ago, adopted the "sterile cockpit rule" prohibiting unnecessary conversations below 10,000' for airline pilots many years ago).
I think you can still touch or hold a paper map or driving directions with your hand though (and maybe a dim flashlight to read them in the other hand at night
)...just no electronic versions of them which, operationally, can be far less distracting than paper, if used intelligently.I also think that wearing ear/head phones would probably result in a moving violation in many jurisdictions so, it's like I tell all my flying students, "fly safely and don't get caught doing it!"
