A Federal Aviation Administration-led (FAA) group of government and industry...
A Federal Aviation Administration-led (FAA) group of government and industry experts began meeting Tuesday to re-examine the agency’s current policies on portable electronic devices (PEDs). The FAA’s current regulations for commercial flights require that all PEDs be powered off during…
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takeoff and landing. Although the group will consider easing those restrictions and determine ways to protect future aircraft from interference, it will not consider easing restrictions on use of mobile phones for voice calls during flight because of the FCC’s existing rule against that use, the FAA said. The group plans to meet over the next six months and then present its recommendations to the FAA (http://1.usa.gov/W7n7VU). The FAA began seeking input in late August on a possible rule change, although industry experts at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month were uncertain whether the agency would actually drop its takeoff and landing requirement (CD Jan 14 p6). Industry experts in the FAA-led group include: Julius Knapp, chief of the FCC’s office of Engineering Technology; Doug Johnson, the Consumer Electronics Association’s vice president-technology policy; and Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president-global public policy (http://xrl.us/boa35q).