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Passenger Exaggerations
People love embellishing the sensations of flight. They can’t help it perhaps — nervous fliers especially — but the altitudes, speeds and angles they perceive often aren’t close to the real thing.... (life.salon.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Good stuff Patrick. One thing I DON"T need to embellish is the "leg room" in coach. These planes, or many of the domestic ones, are designed for people under 5'9" and 150 lbs. I am 6'2" and 210. CLEARLY not a two seatbelt issue, just not a small person. It is VERY uncomfortable. My own pet peeve. You want to do a 757 at a 60 degree bank, tell me where. I will bring my headset!!
As some one told me once about an unconventional takeoff due to incoming wx,"sometimes you got to make a Winnebago drive like a 'Vette", but as Patrick says, a 60 degree bank will glue your feet to the floor.lol
Unless in a descent.
hey, we flying a 757, not an F 18.lol
Wayne..brilliant idea..give 'em all little joysticks and load up some video games..F18s would be good. Every now and again you could let 'em (the pax) have a real "go" up front. Pass away the hours for them, MBAs would love it..new sales pitch. To compete Boeing would just have to replace all those big yokes with joy sticks... then all three hundred pax could have an input to a parallel FMS. The FMS would average out all the inputs yet keep the plane within the envelope.
lol.
I'm 6'1" and I've concluded that midgets run the airline industry. My favorite is when the wire holding the seat pouch open fits RIGHT under your kneecap.
If it were up to the airlines, we would have "standing room only" like the L in Chicago! lol