Originally Posted by
757_Driver
May I ask a question (slight drift, taking advantage of pilots on this thread) reading some past posts I understand that the slides double as a rafts for water emergency landings.
Would the number of slides/rafts (thinking Titanic, freezing waters) be sufficient for a full a/c pax and crew to be accommodated on them?
Daz
I stand to be corrected, but its actually slighty better than that.
The certification requirements are that passengers can evac in a given time (90 seconds rings a bell) using only half the slides(i.e on the assumption that one side of the aircraft is completley unuseable - unusual attitude, fire etc)
I also believe that the raft / floation passenger capacity requirement assumes the complete loss of one raft? but i'm not 100% on that one.
As far as I know you are correct except it's the complete loss of the raft with the highest capacity!