Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

I was on a jet the other day and the pilot came on the intercom and said that we were going to circle for an indefinite amount of time and ground control would not tell him why.

Huh?

Being me, my first thought was Something Big was going on. But I had no way of knowing. No cell phone and the plane had no airphone on board. So, I got to thinking, what I need is a pager that can transmit text messages and have service nationwide…this way, I can sign up with various LMI websites or organizations that send pager alerts in case anything goes on. I could be at 36,000 feet wondering whats going on, or I could have a pager message that says “EAST COAST BLACKED OUT. CAUSE UNKNOWN. NO WORD FROM FEDS…..”

So, now I need to find nationwide-service paging……….ideas?