Apple's iOS has a new feature where it shows live progress of your travel/flight near the top of the screen so I apparently have 16 minutes until my plane crashes.
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@Alice where/how is it picking up that information? Is this a US thing?
Here in Europe we are told to turn our phones/devices to flight mode for the entire flight. I did once travel on a Air NZ Heathrow to LA plane that had free satellite wifi but that is the exception.
@marjolica I was just on WiFi on the plane.
@Alice yes Flight mode would turn off phone and mobile data, wifi and Bluetooth which is a bit heavy.
A lot of people use Bluetooth for the headphones - and I see lots of those in use so clearly not everyone is using flight mode. Not sure how many aircraft have internal WiFi which could potentially be used to update on arrivals time - clearly the Air NZ flight I was on, which connected to a Satellite, must have have as I remember using it.
Seemingly these says its all a bit of security theatre: it won't crash the plance but seemingly a lot of phones connecting to cell towers can lead to a nasty buzz in the pilots ears.
Personally I just turn off the mobile phone radio.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/airplane-mode-when-flying-why-pilot-answer-b1263021.html
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@Alice Are we sure it's not a very very low-res trailer for Die Hard 2?
That's actually the AI telling you that it's taken control of the plane. Apple's answer to Copilot, a new feature.
Try voice commands next time. "Fly the plane straight, Siri." "I'm afraid I can't do that, Alice." Etc.
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I really don’t want to be nitpicky about this because I did find it helpful to be able to see my plane's progress while in the air, but the whole downward tilted plane thing is pretty weird.
It's a long black bar. Just make a cute little plane flying at a 0 degree angle moving across the black bar from left to right. Done.
@Alice I worked for some airlines briefly, and can confirm that symbol is the 'standard' for landing. (Gets used on tickets and airport signage) I always thought it looked crashy too. Planes don't land nose down!
@Alice I assume they just used the 🛬 utf-8 symbol, and in apple symbology it looks more crash-y than average
The diagram clearly shows that the plane will level out, do a 90 degree roll, and crash into the battery indicator.
@Alice I read 16 meters !
@Alice according to my watch it's about 10 minutes from now. Which is until you have a safe landing that is. No crashy-crashy. 🙏🙏👍👍
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