Lol yes its turned on.  It ACTS like its turned off, but the switch is very much in the on position.

I am having the same problem.  When the plane is charging, the bluetooth logo on my phone quickly flashes back and forth between white and grey, and the screen quickly flicks back and forth between the 'searching' screen and the flight control page. When I unplug the phone, the bluetooth icon goes grey, the white LED on the plane goes dark, and the phone stays on the searching page perpetually.  Network reset, phone reboot, no luck.  Plane charged for hours.