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Safety Cell™
The Safety Cell™ is an interconnect device that couples your cell phone into your aircraft headset. It allows simultaneous use of the cell phone and your aircraft radio. At all times, you will hear both the caller and the radio transmissions. When you reply to the cell phone caller, just talk as you normally would into your headset mic. If you wish to transmit on the radio, just push your push-to-talk switch as you normally would.
The Safety Cell™ has a sophisticated, patented amplification circuit in it. It draws its power from the mic jack so there are no batteries to wear down. While drawing only 13ma of power, we get a full 600% volume increase on the cell phone, an important feature in the cockpit environment.
To use the Safety Cell™, just plug it into your aircraft's standard headset and microphone jacks, then plug your headset into the Safety Cell™. The third cord from the Safety Cell™ plugs into any standard hands-free, 2.5 mm jack supplied on most modern cell phones. If you cell phone does not have a standard hands-free, 2.5 mm jack, you may need to purchase an adapter from your cell phone provider. Alternately, you can use a portable tape recorder in place of the cell phone and utilize the Safety Cell™ as a cockpit voice recorder and/or ATC instruction recorder.
The uses of the Safety Cell™ are numerous. Here are a few of them:
Please note: The FCC does not allow the use of a cell phone in an airplane while in flight. They do allow cell phone use in the cockpit while the plane is on the ground. Currently, the FAA does not have a position on cell phone use in the cockpit. However, they do state that it is the pilot in command who has the ultimate responsibility to ensure that portable electronics used in the cockpit do not interfere with the avionics of the airplane.
