• Pyr@lemmy.ca
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    28 days ago

    You only really need to do it for take of and landing.

    But you still don’t have data or GPS or anything and a lot of flights don’t have wifi so pretty useless unless you have offline games or downloaded shows/movies/audiobooks.

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        27 days ago

        Idk I’ve never been able to get GPS on my phone to work on a plane always. I think consumer devices have it disabled over certain speeds/altitudes so people can’t make home made rockets and shit.

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          27 days ago

          While that is true, commercial flights aren’t going over those limits (they’re to prevent ICBMs). I used it on my last flight without issue and could see how close to my destination I was, how high the plane was and how fast we were going.

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            27 days ago

            Might just be my phone then… I fly pretty frequently and often check my phone to try and see how long it might be until landing but often it just shows the take off point