NTSB re Life Vests
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ozangle,
Thanks a lot for your tale!
So it can be done, if it's done as a game, and involving the children...
A bit like what gadgetman suggested, too....
Make it a 'feature', and there would be no reason for panic, and some people will learn something.
I liked the suggestion about corporate events, too... those who qualify would get a certificate entitling them to preferential seating at the emergency exits, with the added benefit of the bit of extra legroom...
CJ
Thanks a lot for your tale!
So it can be done, if it's done as a game, and involving the children...
A bit like what gadgetman suggested, too....
Make it a 'feature', and there would be no reason for panic, and some people will learn something.
I liked the suggestion about corporate events, too... those who qualify would get a certificate entitling them to preferential seating at the emergency exits, with the added benefit of the bit of extra legroom...
CJ
As a SLF, I guess I fly too much - I'm pretty well word perfect on the BA safety briefing. Although it does irritate that when the little brat drops his stuffed toy rabbit, the CC gives it back to him instead of belting the little b*****d round the ear! But I take off my reading glasses, put on my distance glasses, pay attention, and look round the business class cabin and despair at all the mutts carrying on reading or occasionally, talking, and ignoring the demo. I figure that even if I know what to do by now, it's only polite to listen. Plus different airlines, different techniques. A320 on South West, place the over wing exit hatch on the seat. BA, eject through the opening. BA A320 ditching, use over wing exits, other exits above waterline. BMI, no mention of this.
OK, so I'm a sad puppy noticing the differences....but if ever it comes to it, I hope that I'll be alive afterwards. Not that it's likely to happen - I've flown over 2 million miles in the last 30 years, and probably the most interesting thing was a go around at Heathrow.
I suppose it is really because at the end of the day, air travel is too cheap and like riding a bus or a train. So it shows in the PAX behaviour.
OK, so I'm a sad puppy noticing the differences....but if ever it comes to it, I hope that I'll be alive afterwards. Not that it's likely to happen - I've flown over 2 million miles in the last 30 years, and probably the most interesting thing was a go around at Heathrow.
I suppose it is really because at the end of the day, air travel is too cheap and like riding a bus or a train. So it shows in the PAX behaviour.
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radeng,
I should admit I'm that other kind of sad puppy, an ancient aeronautical engineer who's read too many crash reports, and hence knows there are survivable ones (BA038 and many others).
So I listen... and read the card, and check where the doors are... and the life vests (under the seat or above my head?).
Maybe having missed the 1-11 runway overrun at Corfu by one week, and my wife missing the Corfu-Athens flight going down by one day, have something to do with it.
I doubt very much it'll ever happen to me now, but why be sorry if you can be safe?
CJ
I should admit I'm that other kind of sad puppy, an ancient aeronautical engineer who's read too many crash reports, and hence knows there are survivable ones (BA038 and many others).
So I listen... and read the card, and check where the doors are... and the life vests (under the seat or above my head?).
Maybe having missed the 1-11 runway overrun at Corfu by one week, and my wife missing the Corfu-Athens flight going down by one day, have something to do with it.
I doubt very much it'll ever happen to me now, but why be sorry if you can be safe?
CJ
ChristiaanJ,
I forgot to mention - check that there REALLY is a life jacket under the seat, and that it hasn't been nicked by some chavs off to Spain for the week. Only once did I find it missing, but I still check.
I forgot to mention - check that there REALLY is a life jacket under the seat, and that it hasn't been nicked by some chavs off to Spain for the week. Only once did I find it missing, but I still check.
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I teach dinghy sailing sometimes in my local club (near Dublin, Ireland) and unlike pre-takeoff briefings, the lifejacket drill is eagerly watched because these folks know they are going in the drink at least once to learn capsize drill.
Contrast that to the stock pre-takeoff lifejacket drill which commences "In the unlikely event of a landing on water..." a phrase which is not calculated to make you sit up and pay attention. I think that phrase should be banned and replaced with:
"In the event of a crash-landing on water, you may have to jump in the ocean and you will drown if you don't wear one of these, so listen up, this is serious."
BTW, I tried to take out a lifejacket pack once but it wouldn't budge. Is there a velcro tab or something?
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Contrast that to the stock pre-takeoff lifejacket drill which commences "In the unlikely event of a landing on water..." a phrase which is not calculated to make you sit up and pay attention. I think that phrase should be banned and replaced with:
"In the event of a crash-landing on water, you may have to jump in the ocean and you will drown if you don't wear one of these, so listen up, this is serious."
BTW, I tried to take out a lifejacket pack once but it wouldn't budge. Is there a velcro tab or something?
Talent
