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Old 1st Dec 2009, 22:45
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I looked into what these factors are for the Falcon 2000:

The official cabin length for that plane is 31', and it turns out that this number INCLUDES the baggage hold while the 900 (and I'm guessing the 7X) does not. Also, from reading some of the documents on Smart Cockpit, I can't find anywhere it mentions a limitation on baggage hold access during flight for the Falcon 2000. It seems that you can enter and exit whenever you want. Maybe because the baggage compartment is completely in front of the engines, whereas it is about parallel with the engines in the 900 and 7X?

I don't understand the point of that regulation. If the engine explodes and slices through the fuselage, you are in trouble regardless. Even if the door happens to be open at that moment, I'm sure that the door could be engineered to be automatically slammed closed by the suction of the escaping air. Yes, mandate that you have that secondary pressure bulkhead and that the door is springloaded to automatically close in order to encourage it to be closed whenever possible. But I wouldn't think twice about going in to get a bag knowing that my only marginal risk is of an engine exploding, which probably is risky enough to my life even if I'm not in the baggage hold.
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