How To Be a Real Twit With Your iPhone

A reminder to you iPhone smartypants that having a better phone than everyone else does not give you a license to act like a royal know-it-all. To whit comes the tale -- apocryphal or not, still a fine a object lesson -- of an airline passenger using information gleaned from his Ba'albrick to dispute reports of weather delays and generally needle the crew. The captain responded with the following announcement:

If the passenger with the iPhone would be kind enough to use it to check the weather at our alternate, calculate our fuel burn due to being rerouted around the storms, call the dispatcher to arrange our release, and then make a phone call to the nearest Air Traffic Control center to arrange our timely departure amongst the other aircraft carrying passengers with iPhones, then we will be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the flight attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multi-million dollar aircraft and its passengers to safely leave.

We Knew This Was Going To Happen: iPhone Equipped Passenger Takes On Flight Crew Over Weather[PlaneBuzz]