DV 8 wrote:

The Captain signs a "release" taking full resposibility for that
airplane and everone in it and releasing the company from that
flight.

So leave the passengers alone if they want to play with their electronic
toys while seated.

****ing talk about that - not about your ego that you know how to press
the right buttons to start the engines.

And big ****ing deal about signing a release. If anything happens, you
know damn well that everyone sues everyone else anyways - signed
releases mean squat.

You'd be better off if you DID'T sign a release. Why are you signing
away your rights to NOT be responsible for the conduct of the
passengers? I wouldn't want to be responsible if I were the pilot. I
have no control over who buys the tickets to get on the plane. I
wouldn't want that control.

As for being responsible for their safety - last time I checked the
pilots are usually on the same plane as the passengers, and if the plane
crashes then the pilots are usually also roughed up (or killed). So
your own sense of self preservation is all "safety" the passengers need.

OH, I am a Prof of Aeronautics and teach at the worlds largest Aro
University to stay in my beloved interests during retirement.

I'd rather not hear about the hard-on you get when you talk about
yourself.

What did you learn, Professor, about some boob in business class playing
a game on his ipad? Tell us what you know or what you teach about how
badly an iPad ****s up an airplane that's sitting at the gate, or a
plane that's pushed back from the gate but just sitting there for 10 or
15 minutes?

Tell us about what you learned about human psycology, about the merits
of picking your fights, and if the reward of agrivating passengers into
turning off their harmless devices is worth the increase in conflict and
tension in the cabin?