Filthy, germ-laden, rotten, disgusting, wretched, skanky, rancid, putrid, fetid, and fart-filled are just a few of the adjectives used to describe cabin air, and legion are the accounts of flyers allegedly made ill by microscopic pathogens circulating throughout a plane. In reality, the air is very clean. On all modern aircraft, passengers and crew breathe […]

2023年5月31日 · You cannot — I repeat, cannot — open the doors or emergency hatches of an airplane in flight. You can’t open them for the simple reason that cabin pressure won’t allow it. Think of an aircraft door as a drain plug, fixed in place by the interior pressure. Almost all aircraft exits open inward.

2023年8月30日 · Alas, the airplane cabin has contracted this same scourge. Nowadays, the entire boarding process, followed by the first several minutes after takeoff, consist of nothing but announcements: safety videos that never end, ignored directives on how to stow your luggage, and those manifesto-length promotional speeches.

Crosscheck is a generic term used by pilots and flight attendants meaning that one person has verified the task of another. In the cabin, flight attendants crosscheck one another’s stations to make sure the doors are armed or disarmed as necessary. • ALL-CALL “Flight attendants, doors to arrival, crosscheck and all-call.”

Boeing, Airbus, and the other manufacturers devise an initial, standard checklists for every airplane type, and carriers then tweak them. As a result, a 737 checklist at American Airlines will read differently than a 737 checklist at Delta. The basics are always the same, but airlines tailor them in accordance with their training and SOP.

The airplane cabin is a last refuge of relative silence (so long as there isn’t a baby wailing). Let’s keep it that way. Back to the Ask the Pilot Home Page Visit the Blog Archive Back to Top!

2017年1月24日 · The typical economy class cabin is only slightly more cramped nowadays than in years past, yet the amount of garbage on the floor has increased exponentially. I remember flying in the 1970s and 1980s, when there were ALMOST as many people crammed into economy, yet you never saw anything like what you see today.

The others from the cockpit would unfasten their belts and shimmy down the sidewalls to the main cabin floor before similarly leaping to safety. Once on the ground, they faced a deafening roar. The plane had been pancaked into the grass, but because the cockpit control lines were severed, the engines were still running at full power.

2019年1月11日 · 99.99999% of us don’t fly business or first, so the layout of the cabin is a million times more important than whether pilots like the way a plane handles. When Boeing first announced the 787, they went on and on about how spacious the cabin is. A Piper Cub is spacious with no seats in it as well.

Scary, but these kinds of explosives are very unstable and cannot be easily transported by hand. And although certain liquids, when combined under specific conditions, are indeed dangerous, creating those conditions poses huge challenges that, say most experts, would be highly difficult to replicate in an airplane cabin.