allow 802.11 when flying

[toomanyhandles]

Airplane mode--but allow 802.11?

Flying over the holiday my Verizon d2g did not seem able to make 802.11 connections in airplane mode, it could not see the available SSID.

I had tried turning on wireless while in that mode, but it just stayed at scanning..... while my kindle for example could see the planes SSID.

This is non-gingerbread, that update has not shown up yet for me.

How can I disable the cell signal (not just data, but the phone signal also) but allow 802.11?

Thanks!