A pilot revealed the shocking truth about the placement of your phone in airplane mode – and obliging in this rule is not as critical as one might think.

We all know the routine well: board the planeConnect your seat belt, then activate Safe Flight Mode on all portable devices. But how important is it?

Not much, according to the airline pilot, WE Army veteran and TikToker @PerchPoint.

“If you forget to put your phone on airplane mode, no, it’s not the end of the world, the plane won’t fall out of the sky and it won’t even disrupt the systems on board,” he said at 13.2K. subscribers in a single video.

But this risks disrupting headsets, which phones that are not placed in flight safety mode can interfere with, creating a buzzing sound.

“If you have a plane with 70, 80, 150 people on board, and even three or four people’s phones start trying to make a connection with a radio tower for an incoming phone call, that sends out radio waves.” , explains the pilot. .

“It is possible that these radio waves interfere with the radio waves from the helmet that the pilots are using.”

He then recalled a recent flight from San Francisco, where they “pushed the door, (talked) to the ramps and started the engines.”