READ MY UPDATE to this posting, HERE 

As I’ve noted before, I owned a Blackberry for over a year before finally laying my mitts on the MotoQ. One cool thing about the Blackberry that until now I thought was impossible with the MotoQ was the ability to shut the antenna off for use inflight on a commercial airplane or in a hospital ward where cellular use is not allowed. There’s nothing worse than needing to look up a calendar entry or wanting to make a quick note and having your phone/device powered off during flight. The blackberry could be set to not emit/receive signals, thus leaving the device to function as a nice PDA inflight. This often saved me the trouble of firing up my laptop to take notes (since I don’t hand-write with any success).

I’m not one to read the manual, so please pardon my ignorance if it’s boldly explained there, but I didn’t see any intuitive setting to kill the MotoQ’s antenna and not have to power the whole thing off… until today!

As the Motorola Q Wiki states in a section about Modes and Menus:

You can put your phone in flight mode to safely access your address book, games, camera, and music in areas where cellular network access is prohibited (i.e. during airline flights and in hospitals).

Simply hold down the Home key (little house symbol), then highlight and select Flight Mode. When you land, simply repeat and turn the Flight Mode off (turning the antenna back on).

Hurrah!