Too Old for the Emergency Exit?
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Often in Jersey, but mainly in the past.
Age: 79
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This entire subject gets into 'Rumsfeld Territory' again ... the unknown unknowns and all that stuff.
I'm a "Senior Citizen". Reasonably fit, not as sharp and incredibly sexy as I used to be, but perfectly capable [IMO] of handling the over-wing door [physically and mentally]. Possibly helped by having had a long time in the aviation business, a few miles, having been aircrew, ex-military, etc ... do we now need a CV to sit in the exit row?
It is potentially so complex that even psychiatrists or physiologists couldn't prove a case for allowing anyone sitting in the exit row.
One thing I do know - the OH [also ex-mil] and I would be calm under fire, and would follow the drills as briefed. But that isn't on my boarding card
I'm a "Senior Citizen". Reasonably fit, not as sharp and incredibly sexy as I used to be, but perfectly capable [IMO] of handling the over-wing door [physically and mentally]. Possibly helped by having had a long time in the aviation business, a few miles, having been aircrew, ex-military, etc ... do we now need a CV to sit in the exit row?
It is potentially so complex that even psychiatrists or physiologists couldn't prove a case for allowing anyone sitting in the exit row.
One thing I do know - the OH [also ex-mil] and I would be calm under fire, and would follow the drills as briefed. But that isn't on my boarding card
Supercharged PPRuNer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Doon the watter, a million miles from the sandpit.
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I had this a few weeks ago, with an elderly couple sat in an emergency exit row. The SCCM was concerned that they both looked frail, and would struggle to open the exit if required to do so.
My view (and the captain's) was that it was the SCCM's cabin, and if he wasn't happy then they needed to move – and they were duly re-seated. Age wasn't so much an issue as frailty, but if they had paid extra for those seats, I'd imagine a refund would have been in order.
My view (and the captain's) was that it was the SCCM's cabin, and if he wasn't happy then they needed to move – and they were duly re-seated. Age wasn't so much an issue as frailty, but if they had paid extra for those seats, I'd imagine a refund would have been in order.
