[Shop-talk] Cell phones on aircraft (was Compressed Air Lines, RapidAir)

[John Miller]

> One other point, I've been privileged (?) to ride in the cockpit of some
> non-commercial flights.  The radios they use to contact the tower have
> simply hideous voice quality.

What kind of 'non-commercial flight'?

Yes, you can have installation problems, but (a) most often sound 
quality's a function of the headset you're using which is why no one 
cheaps out (or should cheap out) on their headset and (b) if you're 
talking about the in-cabin speaker on something like a 172 those are 
there just as an alternative source of noise (of which you've already 
got plenty...) and maybe as an emergency device in the case of headset 
failure.

John.