"Best passenger..."

[flapsforty]

Hi strake, have read your post with interest.
Always pleasant to read that you respect the cabin crew, I like your attitude.

You seem to say:
Seat belt operation and awareness of exit location are usefull. Most of the other drills are not and are merely left-overs fromt he past.
Do I understand you correctly?
And if so, would you care to explain in a bit more detail which drills you have in mind and why you deem them useless?

I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, I am genuinely interested in your ideas and in your reasons for coming to that conclusion. What is your knowledge base, what experience or schooling do you have to back up this claim?

I admit that like you, I have wondered about all those happy people disambarking a squeeky clean wreck dressed in their impeccably business suits while elegantly sliding down a wing.
I have on sleepless layovers pondered the probabilty of me in my high heels tottering over the windswept wet wing of a ditched 747-300 with my little lanyard to attach it to the attachment point, thus providing a handhold for pax evacuating on the high seas. And no, I never saw it as very feasible that I would manage.


But............ a large part of my day-job involves talking into that mike and getting the pax to look at our boring little sketch with the yellow bits of plastic. The reason I put so much efforrt into getting them to watch is not because the law wants us to a safety demo.

It is because of what I have read over the course of many years of being an FA, the incident and accident reports I have studied, the interviews with crash survivors I have seen, all seem to point in the direction of the fact that the safety drills can save lives.
The lives of those pax who pay attention.

strake, please enlighten me!