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- nascarthunder, on 11/20/2007, -34/+545The guy clearly didn't jailbreak his iPhone. Because my unlocked iPhone can check the weather at a flight's alternate, calculate a fuel burn due to being rerouted around the storms, call a dispatcher to arrange a release, and then make a phone call to the nearest Air Traffic Control center to arrange a timely departure amongst other aircraft carrying passengers with iPhones. Moron.
- straydreamer, on 11/20/2007, -41/+412I knew this was an inevitable result of that dumb commercial... well handled by the captain.
- Topher06, on 11/20/2007, -17/+386I thought that commercial for the iPhone was completely retarded. As if FAA and the airport's weather system is less accurate then information you can get on the iPhone. No airport or airline want's planes to be backed up on the ground, their terminals full of angry people while they wait for the weather to change by sticking their wet finger in the air. Even if that was a REAL pilot and he DID phone in the new weather forecast he got off his iPhone, chances are it was purely coincidental that the dispatch cleared the flights some-time later. The commercial did say it was 30 minutes later they were up in the air. That commerical is the worst, the one with the guy that carries a small back with two phones in it and a camera and an iPod was a close second. Most cellphones post 2000 have handled voice and text messaging without requiring two of them. Apple commericals are pretty good, but between the iPhone and I'm a mac commercials, half the sh*t they say in these commercials is utter BS.
- Kajman, on 11/20/2007, -12/+219Sorry, I can't hear you with all that Steve Jobs ***** in your mouth.
- PistolSO, on 11/20/2007, -23/+217FTA:
"If the passenger with the IPhone would be kind enough to use it to check the weather at our alternate, calculate our fuel burn due to being rerouted around the storms, call the dispatcher to arrange our release, and then make a phone call to the nearest Air Traffic Control center to arrange our timely departure amongst the other aircraft carrying passengers with IPhones, then we will be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the Flight Attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multi-million dollar aircraft and its passengers to safely leave."
Burn!!!! I'd think most pilots would just try to phone the police, so my hat is off to that captain - smedrick, on 11/20/2007, -7/+151This could very well be the dumbest comment I've ever read on Digg.
- 1town, on 11/20/2007, -45/+168Yeah... I don't believe this unsourced story one bit. Sounds like a tall tale to me.
- SWiG, on 11/20/2007, -12/+125iPhwnd
- Coopjust, on 11/20/2007, -7/+115A link to said commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRO7BuGYcvs
The iPhone is a cool device IMO, but the weather function does not make you an expert on weather delays. - brufleth, on 11/20/2007, -8/+112Yeah man. Those ***** should just let a half drunk pilot fly the plane or fly with only one wing.
- nonokiaboy, on 11/20/2007, -30/+121iPhone is getting a bad rep in Australia. It's assumed you're a dick if you have one. Makes me reconsider, especially after reading stuff like this. Dugg :D
- Auntmac, on 11/20/2007, -14/+97"One of our subscribers sent me this story today." So, therefore it MUST be true.
- orlyfactor, on 11/20/2007, -3/+77Phone the police for what? "I'd like to report a dumbass in coach."?
- SteaminTmann, on 11/20/2007, -5/+78This is alse true about every time Jobs talks about a new product and says 'this is the first time people can....' . The reality distortion field in action. What a load of crap.
- JMScheib, on 11/20/2007, -6/+77Logged in just to digg you down.
- dafragsta, on 11/20/2007, -2/+60It's like something House would say.
- squison, on 11/20/2007, -15/+68It's not the phone, it's the smug "I'm better than you because I spent $500 on my new shiny brick of a phone" attitude that most owners, its ads, the company's owner, etc bring along with it.
- jnadke, on 11/20/2007, -4/+56This dude not only has an iPhone, but he also must've stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
The dumbass scales is currently maxed out at 11/10. - Trax91, on 11/20/2007, -2/+51And it can make me breakfast and mow my lawn.
- SiSePuede, on 11/20/2007, -0/+43I'm sure it also manages your date book of virtual girlfriends. :)
- noahhoward, on 11/20/2007, -6/+47Unsourced 'he said/she said' is the new fact. Get with the times.
- Haecceity, on 11/20/2007, -2/+42There's a fuller commentary at http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2007/11/16/ask ... (Salon's "Ask the Pilot").
- Bridea, on 11/20/2007, -2/+40It's not even a "weather function". Guy went to weather.com. woo. hoo.
- alexvalentine, on 11/20/2007, -1/+38That story seems as improbable as the Apple pilot advertisement. As a private pilot, there are many sources of aviation weather available in and out of the cockpit. People also need to realize that just because the weather is good at the destination, doesn't necessarily mean there is acceptable weather for the whole route. Most weather delays are caused by dealing with backlogs for earlier flights when the weather was bad, current conditions usually have nothing to do with it.
- MacParrot, on 11/20/2007, -29/+65Holy crap some of you people are obsessed over a stupid phone. For some reason I picture all of you haters milling about in a large room with William Shatner standing at a podium screaming at you to "GET A LIFE!"
Apple makes some popular and some not-as-popular products that others seem to enjoy that in no way, shape, or form affects your life. Please get over it and move on. - inactive, on 11/20/2007, -0/+35Wrong. Staying at a Holiday Inn Express does that.
- artemster, on 11/20/2007, -2/+36You forget the iPhone commercial where it's implied that iPhone weather accuracy is useful to actual pilots.
- inactive, on 11/20/2007, -4/+38Then again, there was the story a couple weeks ago about a bunch of passengers who refused to fly on a plane with a piece of the wing torn off, when the pilot said it was fine. I still wouldn't want to be on that plane.
- inactive, on 11/20/2007, -7/+41I am a qualified electrician by trade. The job is not glamorous but you meet interesting people on your servicing travels and hear some humorous stories. Mobile phones have become an ego status symbol instead of a work tool. It is quite common for people in restaurants to call the kitchen to find out when their food will be delivered to the table. It is quite plausible that in the scheme of things, people with mobile phones believe they have access to information instantly. The pilot story is plausible. I have seen too many foot in mouth situations with mobile phones owners who think they know more than the person doing the job. Ignorance is bliss, a little knowledge is dangerous, regurgitation of knowledge when you don't know all the facts make you look like an idiot.
- justinmt7, on 11/20/2007, -2/+35Oh yeah and the average passenger even knows how to apply the data for the aircraft they're on? Do you know the crosswind limits for a 737? I sure as hell don't. What are the wet runway conditions applied to an airbus? Grow the f up. If you want to be a pilot, then go to flight school.
- brad3378, on 11/20/2007, -2/+33Both inches?
- TheUngod, on 11/20/2007, -0/+29If someone walked up behind me with an iPhone and told me how to do MY job, especially if he had no idea about anything I do, he'd get a swift kick in the teeth. Props to the pilot for not belting him.
- Bridea, on 11/20/2007, -0/+27newsflash: he'd be getting shat on even if it was a Blackjack. Or a Blackberry. He didn't get flak for having an iPhone, he got flak for being an iDiot.
- TheOther1, on 11/20/2007, -12/+39It's assumed you're a dick if you have one in the states too... Especially if every other word out of your mouth has something to do with your iPhone, as if it cures cancer. But those people would be dicks without iPhones too.
- dylan420, on 11/20/2007, -0/+24the IPhone is also: Sideburns
- banessi, on 11/20/2007, -10/+34Did I miss something? Every f#$%@#g phone has the weather. Anybody jackass with even the most simple phone can do this. It has nothing to do with being an iPhone/Apple or other type of fanboy. It is a douche thing. This being the case, I can see several of the posters in this thread may very well do the same (or similar) thing some day. I have never seen a bigger group of haters in my life. Some people like Apple and have realized that, for them personally, it suits their needs. Get over it please!
- kevcool, on 11/20/2007, -0/+23You can access weather.com on the iPhone? Holy crap, why can't other phones do that! Oh yeah, nearly every other phone CAN do that.
- TheCount, on 11/20/2007, -2/+23That whole batch of iPhone ads are stupid. The muscular dude ends up looking like a douche bag. The dancer looks like an air head. The Pilot looks like an incompetant moron who feels his phone is more accurate than millions of dollars of equipment, and the office guy basically repeats himself over and over for 30 seconds. I don't know what Apple was thinking letting that crap out the door.
- Shogi, on 11/20/2007, -0/+21Only half the stuff they say is BS? I think you're being generous.
- omenmedia, on 11/20/2007, -10/+30Yep, I agree. It's kinda like in that South Park episode where everyone got hybrid cars, emitted huge quantities of smug instead of smog, and really enjoyed the smell of their own farts. As seen here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7T_KGHubIGo - inajeep, on 11/20/2007, -0/+20We need a report user as stupid link right next to the offensive link.
- gordonf238, on 11/20/2007, -11/+30I'm not buying it. Captain wouldn't behave in such an unprofessional manner simply because one of the passengers thought the weather was different. Also, Captain's statement is too well-written, spoken in one long unbroken sentence. It's hard to believe someone could've come-up with that on the fly.
- Hollowpoint, on 11/20/2007, -9/+26No, it made the front page because it's directly related to the advert that just came out, nice baseless statement there.
- gnick, on 11/20/2007, -0/+16Logged in just to ask the same question.
- zforrester, on 11/20/2007, -1/+17who doesnt have automatic login these days?
- inactive, on 11/20/2007, -0/+16This comment is so completely uninformed and irrational, that it really should be dugg up just for how hilariously bad it is.
- cerealman, on 11/20/2007, -3/+19No, it's because of the recent Apple iPhone commercial that this relates. Basically, it's like when people comment without understanding what they read that they get called out for being the idiots that they are.
- nurall, on 11/20/2007, -0/+15its kinda like the joke about corvettes.
I'd like to own one but that would make me a corvette owner. - Dongvid, on 11/20/2007, -3/+17it embodies the smug attitude accompanying the purchase of an iphone. it's brilliant.
- greatblackowl, on 11/20/2007, -2/+16The ultimate compliment.
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