Autopilot
AquaCal AutoPilot, Inc. manufactures swimming pool equipment under two brands: AquaCal pool heat pumps and AutoPilot salt chlorine generators, along with PoolSync connected water care technology. The Florida-based company is part of the employee-owned Team Horner Group and has manufactured its products in the USA since 1981.www.autopilot.com
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Sep 11, 2026
Mike SolanaHOST
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Mike SolanaHOST
All right, it's time for our business segment sponsored by our good friends at Autopilot.
Mike SolanaHOST
Thanks, guys.
Mike SolanaHOST
We're about to talk about something.
Mikah SargentHOST
That is an explanation that came from aviation regulators as a precaution, and it is precaution because as far as I was able to determine, there is no documented case of a passenger's phone bringing down or seriously endangering an aircraft.
Mikah SargentHOST
If you are curious to hear more about kind of the history of why it happens, why the rules are there, and then what happens if you do skip it, there's a guide from Autopilot that says, "Do you have to put your phone on airplane mode? And here's what actually happens if you don't." Now, that is due to two separate rules, the FCC rule since 1991 and the FAA rule that came later.
Mikah SargentHOST
So again, the FCC banned cell phone use on aircrafts in 1991 because they worried about ground network interference.
Mikah SargentHOST
When your phone is up there, it gets to see all of those towers instead of just one or two.
Mikah SargentHOST
If you are curious to hear more about the history of why it happens, why the rules are there, and then what happens if you do skip it...
Mikah SargentHOST
There's a guide from Autopilot that says, do you have to put your phone on airplane mode? And here's what actually happens if you don't.
Mikah SargentHOST
Now, that is due to two separate rules, the FCC rule since 1991 and the FAA rule that came later.
Mikah SargentHOST
So again, the FCC banned cell phone use on aircrafts in 1991. because they worried about ground network interference.
Mikah SargentHOST
That is an explanation that came from aviation regulators as a precaution, and it is precaution because as far as I was able to determine, there is no documented case of a passenger's phone bringing down or seriously endangering an aircraft.
Mikah SargentHOST
If you are curious to hear more about kind of the history of why it happens, why the rules are there, and then what happens if you do skip it, there's a guide from Autopilot that says, "Do you have to put your phone on airplane mode? And here's what actually happens if you don't." Now, that is due to two separate rules: the FCC rule since 1991 and the FAA rule that came later.
Mikah SargentHOST
So again, the FCC banned cellphone use on aircrafts in 1991 because they worried about ground network interference.
Mikah SargentHOST
When your phone is up there, it gets to see all of those towers instead of just one or two.
Mikah SargentHOST
If you are curious to hear more about the history of why it happens, why the rules are there, and then what happens if you do skip it...
Mikah SargentHOST
There's a guide from Autopilot that says, do you have to put your phone on airplane mode? And here's what actually happens if you don't.
Mikah SargentHOST
Now, that is due to two separate rules, the FCC rule since 1991 and the FAA rule that came later.
Mikah SargentHOST
So again, the FCC banned cell phone use on aircrafts in 1991. because they worried about ground network interference.
Mikah SargentHOST
If you are curious to hear more about the history of why it happens, why the rules are there, and then what happens if you do skip it...
Mikah SargentHOST
There's a guide from Autopilot that says, do you have to put your phone on airplane mode? And here's what actually happens if you don't.
Mikah SargentHOST
Now, that is due to two separate rules, the FCC rule since 1991 and the FAA rule that came later.
Mikah SargentHOST
So again, the FCC banned cell phone use on aircrafts in 1991. because they worried about ground network interference.
JesseHOST
Which one do you use right now?
SharonHOST
I use Orto, O-R-T-T-O.
SharonHOST
Oh, I
JesseHOST
didn't even know that one.