Reliable method for air/ground communications?

"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
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Without getting into a discussion of just which cell phones cannot be used
in flight, the easy answer is to buy a couple of Family Radio Service
handhelds. Cell phones licensed under Part 22 of the FCC regulations
cannot be used in flight...do you know the regs under which your phone is
licensed?

Nope, but if I'm the PIC I'm making the call (literally.) Unless making a
15-second cell-phone call fifteen minutes out from the destination airfield
is going to somehow prevent me from getting there, I'm not going to worry
about it.

I can just see it happening, though... CAVU, destination in site,
speed-dial the number to notify and BOOM! Lost, out of fuel, out of
control. Fireball in the sky from the fuel tanks randomly exploding like
that Pinto in Top Secret. Probably happens all the time in LA. :

-c