Electronic devices impossible to switch off

Hi guys,

Ryanair is asking us to switch off all electronic devices during take-off and landing, and most of us happily ignore that by leaving their electronic watches on, and then the staff never cares. I think this rule is silly and needs to change or go away. If there was someone travelling with an electronic pacemaker, this rule would be the same as saying "can you please kill yourself because we can't be bothered working out the difference between airplane mode and switched off state".

And if you thought your Kindle switches off when you hold the power button, you're wrong - it only goes to sleep. It's clearly visible if you jailbreak it - even after the screen goes blank, you can wake your kindle again and the uptime stays at whatever it was.

So it's an un-enforceable rule. Did no-one really notice it so far?

From 6th Feb 2014:

General Terms & Conditions of Carriage
11.2 PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES

Small portable electronic devices (weighing less than 1 kilo) may be used during all stages of a flight if Flight Mode is selected. For safety reasons, laptops and larger portable electronic devices must be stowed during taxi, take-off and landing or at any other time as requested by the Captain.

Any device that transmits or receives communications whichdoes not have a flight mode, must be switched off for the duration of the flight.

The operation of hearing aids and heart pacemakers is permitted.

Nice find, thanks. Looks like they've finally fixed the problem :-)