Cabin Lighting
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Cabin Lighting
Just a quick question about Cabin Lighting during day time hours...here in Oz I'm lead to believe QF and JQ dim their cabin lighting during the day?
I really prefer the cabin lights be dimmed during daytime flying as it is much nicer to have the natual light coming into the cabin, rather than having everyone sitting under BRIGHT lights for the flight, as is currently the procedure at Virgin Blue. It creates a much more relaxed cabin environment and im sure would be much nicer for people trying to watch IFE screens?
Thoughts?
I really prefer the cabin lights be dimmed during daytime flying as it is much nicer to have the natual light coming into the cabin, rather than having everyone sitting under BRIGHT lights for the flight, as is currently the procedure at Virgin Blue. It creates a much more relaxed cabin environment and im sure would be much nicer for people trying to watch IFE screens?
Thoughts?
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From: LHR
cabin lights....
I basically only ever put the cabin lights on during boarding/disembarking & the safety demo..I leave them off at almost all other times.
As you said before it's far nicer for the pax to have natural light illuminating the cabin than those vile stip lights that we have in our jets.
As you said before it's far nicer for the pax to have natural light illuminating the cabin than those vile stip lights that we have in our jets.
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Emergency Strip Lighting
Can anyone share some info about the emergency strip lighting, the 'glow in the dark' type, with regards to how long it takes to charge etc? Even with the cabin lights dimmed during the day, would it still recieve its charge from this? Plus lights would be returned to bright for about 30 mins every turnaround so could this be sufficient? Have checked the manuals but there is no info about this!
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Emergency Strip Lighting
Which lighting do you mean? If you are talking about the Emergency floor lighting for use in an Evac then on most aircraft it's not "glow in the dark", it's lit internally by bulbs or similar which are powered from the aircraft batteries.
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Originally Posted by wiggy
on most aircraft it's not "glow in the dark",
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Is the lighting still electrically operated? As I dont understand how it wouldnt light up when the cabin lights are off if it is simply operating on being charged from light. Im sure its very advanced but I just remember the basics of photoilluminicity are bright light charges and then darkness activates..
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The photoluminescent strip lighting on either side of the aisle is not electrically operated - it is, as you say, charged up by light. You can see it on an overnight flight when all lights are down, but its not overbearingly bright. In addition to the strip floor lighting, there is also emergency lights mounted on the bottom of the overhead lockers shining into the aisle.
All take off's and landing's (with us) are with the ceiling lights on a minimum of "dim" (depending on time of day/night) so, as a result, there is always some charge in the strip lighting for take off and landing - even after a long overnight flight where the lights have been off all night, because the ceiling lights are changed from "off" to "dim" for landing.
I think that makes sense!
All take off's and landing's (with us) are with the ceiling lights on a minimum of "dim" (depending on time of day/night) so, as a result, there is always some charge in the strip lighting for take off and landing - even after a long overnight flight where the lights have been off all night, because the ceiling lights are changed from "off" to "dim" for landing.
I think that makes sense!
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On some of the 757's in our company we have strips along both sides of the aisle which does appear to be 'glow in the dark'. it might be on all of our 757's but it is more noticeable on some of them. when the cabin lights are switched off completely during TO and landing in the hours of darkness you can see it very clearly.
however, nothing is ever mentioned to us about the lights having to be on to charge it. i'm a senior as well, and you would have thought that if this was the case it would have been mentioned to us or even maybe written in our procedures manual - but nothing!!
however, nothing is ever mentioned to us about the lights having to be on to charge it. i'm a senior as well, and you would have thought that if this was the case it would have been mentioned to us or even maybe written in our procedures manual - but nothing!!
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Very interesting Sinala, thanks for answering my question 
I imagine it acts as guidelights for normal operation on those night flights, good for the passnegers using the lavs and for us as we wouldnt need our little torches!
I imagine it acts as guidelights for normal operation on those night flights, good for the passnegers using the lavs and for us as we wouldnt need our little torches!
