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Just out of interest, does anyone actually take heed to any of the
information on the safety demo given befiore take off. On the majority of flights I have been on people keep talking and dont listen to them. And once when I my flight was due to have an emergency landing they done the demo again. Which we ALL paid attention to lol. Paul x |
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Da Man wrote:
Just out of interest, does anyone actually take heed to any of the information on the safety demo given befiore take off. On the majority of flights I have been on people keep talking and dont listen to them. And once when I my flight was due to have an emergency landing they done the demo again. Which we ALL paid attention to lol. I would guess new and not so frequent flyers might be interested. It's not really an issue. The mask drops down and you are supposed to "breath normally". White lights lead to red lights. The seat belt design is nothing new. There are always exits in front of me or behind me, unless I am in FC. |
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As one Southwest airline attendant put it (when they can still do jokes),
"if you've been living in a cave the last 30 years, here is how to put on your seat belt." (or words to that effect.) "Da Man" wrote in message ... Just out of interest, does anyone actually take heed to any of the information on the safety demo given befiore take off. On the majority of flights I have been on people keep talking and dont listen to them. And once when I my flight was due to have an emergency landing they done the demo again. Which we ALL paid attention to lol. Paul x |
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"Da Man" wrote: Just out of interest, does anyone actually take heed to any of the information on the safety demo given befiore take off. On the majority of flights I have been on people keep talking and dont listen to them. And once when I my flight was due to have an emergency landing they done the demo again. Which we ALL paid attention to lol. This topic has come up a few times in the rec.travel.air group. You might want to check the archives for that group. Me? I fly on commercial airlines an average of about three times a year. I have been flying since I was a little kid some 30 years ago. I know the safety drill inside and out so I don't pay attention. Those who are not experience airline passengers should probably pay attention. |
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"Da Man" vented spleen or mostly mumbled...
Just out of interest, does anyone actually take heed to any of the information on the safety demo given befiore take off. On the majority of flights I have been on people keep talking and dont listen to them. And once when I my flight was due to have an emergency landing they done the demo again. Which we ALL paid attention to lol. Once, a long time ago, circumstances dictated that being sure where the Hell the exit was in the dark was of some import to me. Fortunately, the light from a nearby outburst of flames made it quite visible and stimulated my movement toward it no little bit. Fortunately, the aisle in a Twin Beech SNB/C-45 is very short. These days, I'm frankly appalled by most of those whom I see the airlines put in the exit rows, confident that they not only don't know how to operate the exits but would be physically unable to handle pulling the hatch inboard as some types of a/c require. As the old rabbi said when the priest seated adjacent questioned the rabbi's crossing himself after a rough landing...."Spectacles, testicles, watch and wallet..." TMO |
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"Da Man" wrote in message
... Just out of interest, does anyone actually take heed to any of the information on the safety demo given befiore take off. On the majority of flights I have been on people keep talking and dont listen to them. The reason? It's boring and long-winded. Why? Blame the FAA. The following article explains things. http://archive.salon.com/tech/col/sm...askthepilot10/ Sept. 13, 2002 | Readers have come forward with some amusing, if cynical, comments regarding the preflight safety briefing offered by the cabin crew. The style of these briefings has always been a pet peeve of mine -- their importance betrayed by turning a few minutes of important information into several minutes of profligate banality. The speech has become, at this point, pure camp -- legal fine print turned into (bad) performance art and honed to ludicrous perfection. Some background: In America, those of us involved in the day-to-day operations of commercial flying work under the jurisdiction of a vast web of rules known as the Federal Aviation Regulations, or FARs. Commercial aviation has grown tremendously both in size and complexity, which naturally has increased the size and scope of applicable regulation. However, while size and scope are one thing, decipherability and practicality are something else. The FARs are an enormous, frequently unintelligible volume. Their fatty babble shows off aviation's flair for the arcane, and there is no more glaring example of prolix rigmarole than the dreaded safety briefing. Any frequent traveler will tell you that the best sleeping pill for an anxious flyer is the rote recitation covering seat belts, life vests and oxygen masks -- so weighed down with extraneous language that it's completely without impact. The briefing card outlining the requirements for seating in exit rows has set a new standard. Those requirements were controversial for some time. The result: an interminable, bafflingly verbose card packed with enough technobabble to set anyone's head spinning. Exit-row passengers are asked to review this card before takeoff. On one recent flight passengers were subjected to the phrase "at this time" repeated on thirteen occasions. "At this time we ask that you please return your seat backs to their full and upright positions." Why not, "Please straighten your seat backs." Meanwhile almost every airline includes the following: "Federal law prohibits tampering with, disabling, or destroying any lavatory smoke detector." Aren't tampering with, disabling, and destroying essentially the same things? How can you destroy something without having tampered with it? With a pair of shears and common sense, a typical briefing can be trimmed to about half its length with no sacrifice of information. The result is a cleaner oration that people will actually listen to. As part of a college paper on air safety, I once turned a typical 6-minute briefing into 2.5 concise, polite minutes of useful instruction. -- Goliath & Wildwing's Storage Room http://anatidae.homestead.com/ |
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How is that different from any other bureaucracy? I work in human resources
and you should see the offer letters we send out to applicants, a whole page full of information required by various federal and state laws. "James Anatidae" wrote in message ... "Da Man" wrote in message ... Just out of interest, does anyone actually take heed to any of the information on the safety demo given befiore take off. On the majority of flights I have been on people keep talking and dont listen to them. The reason? It's boring and long-winded. Why? Blame the FAA. The following article explains things. http://archive.salon.com/tech/col/sm...askthepilot10/ Sept. 13, 2002 | Readers have come forward with some amusing, if cynical, comments regarding the preflight safety briefing offered by the cabin crew. The style of these briefings has always been a pet peeve of mine -- their importance betrayed by turning a few minutes of important information into several minutes of profligate banality. The speech has become, at this point, pure camp -- legal fine print turned into (bad) performance art and honed to ludicrous perfection. Some background: In America, those of us involved in the day-to-day operations of commercial flying work under the jurisdiction of a vast web of rules known as the Federal Aviation Regulations, or FARs. Commercial aviation has grown tremendously both in size and complexity, which naturally has increased the size and scope of applicable regulation. However, while size and scope are one thing, decipherability and practicality are something else. The FARs are an enormous, frequently unintelligible volume. Their fatty babble shows off aviation's flair for the arcane, and there is no more glaring example of prolix rigmarole than the dreaded safety briefing. Any frequent traveler will tell you that the best sleeping pill for an anxious flyer is the rote recitation covering seat belts, life vests and oxygen masks -- so weighed down with extraneous language that it's completely without impact. The briefing card outlining the requirements for seating in exit rows has set a new standard. Those requirements were controversial for some time. The result: an interminable, bafflingly verbose card packed with enough technobabble to set anyone's head spinning. Exit-row passengers are asked to review this card before takeoff. On one recent flight passengers were subjected to the phrase "at this time" repeated on thirteen occasions. "At this time we ask that you please return your seat backs to their full and upright positions." Why not, "Please straighten your seat backs." Meanwhile almost every airline includes the following: "Federal law prohibits tampering with, disabling, or destroying any lavatory smoke detector." Aren't tampering with, disabling, and destroying essentially the same things? How can you destroy something without having tampered with it? With a pair of shears and common sense, a typical briefing can be trimmed to about half its length with no sacrifice of information. The result is a cleaner oration that people will actually listen to. As part of a college paper on air safety, I once turned a typical 6-minute briefing into 2.5 concise, polite minutes of useful instruction. -- Goliath & Wildwing's Storage Room http://anatidae.homestead.com/ |
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In a similar vain on a United flight I heard "The seat belt fastens and
unfastens like this, if you haven't worked that out already are you safe to let out on your own?" |
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