reply to Nialler
Nialler most Evacs do not happen planned and most are on landing
therefore in a catastrophic and unexpected event such as BA38 or the AF A340-300 over run at YYZ the question of which way you go/turn/head/jump/crawl/climb to get out may or may not be that which is most logical or that printed on your boarding card.
ie where you ''came in''
when you get seated on board spot/note the doors in front and behind you on both sides and count the seat rows to them
read the door/hatch opening procedures - if you see any obvious huge fatties/kids/infirm or real oldies are seated by or even in the exit row then tell the C/C to move them - end of.
BTW the hatch to be thrown out may weigh up to 50LBS.
if you are at the over-wing hatches some have to get thrown out and some just pop up
and to just say put on the boarding card where you evacuate would not work!
in the old days we used to print on the boarding cards seat rows 1-15 board by the front door and rows 16-32 board by the rear door -
SLF still took no notice and that was 30-40 years ago!
BTW we never allocated exit row seats at check-in for those who clearly were not permitted to go there
Last edited by rog747; 7th Sep 2014 at 17:41.