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Old 23rd Apr 2006, 09:47
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CherokeeDriver
 
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FBW. Don't get too stressed about it. When I was doing some work with "the worlds favourite" a couple of years ago they had a 'prototype not for passenger use 757 rigged up with some onboard Internet Access (now called Connexions I think...) Anyho... we went up for a jaunt to test this stuff out and in a non-commercial situation. No flight Crew just a few tekkies and a marketing droid from said airline. We were asked to buckle up etc.. but the tekkies were twiddling with insturments, walking around, checking under seats during the take off roll, climb, cruise, descent and landing. Nobody got hurt or injured. I'm not saying that failing to buckle up at any time in a flight is a good idea, but the reality is the 'plane needs to hit severe weather or have some unusual manipulation before any unbuckled person is in any real danger.... I await the flames from the more safety paranoid
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