Dear friends and followers welcome back to my channel. Today's video will cover another classic
Passenger question.
Why do the fight attendants dim the lights prior to takeoff and landing during hours of darkness and why the does
tray table need to be stowed away, the window blinds need to be up,
and the seat into its upright position and I'll give you a plane hack
What makes this little thing right here so special for the survival of many passengers so let's get started
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Own business or how to make your passion a full-time job i am pretty sure that many of you have experienced this
multiple times: you're in your
Passenger seat you're taxing to the active runway the sun has just set and during taxi the flight attendant makes an announcement
Ladies and gentlemen in preparation for takeoff, we would like you to open up the window blinds, stow
your tray
Table and bring your seat into the upright position and a few minutes later the flight attendant dims the cabin lights now
most of the flight attendant announcements are related to your safety and the safety of the entire flight so i
Advise you to pay close attention
Ok, let's first explain the dimed cabin lights, now imagine yourself sitting in your garden on a sunny
Day and then you decide to head into the garage to get some ice cream from the deep freezer you open the door to your
Pitch-black garage and probably stumble over your garden hose as your eyes haven't yet adapted to the darkness you can
See where i'm going with this now, let's imagine the takeoff
Is rejected due to an engine fire and the plane comes to a rapid stop on the runway
Now this most probably will initiate an emergency evacuation
Procedure now the flight attendants will give you instructions via the pa system to evacuate the plane immediately
Now if the cabin lights were to be fully bright you would then jump onto the slide into
Absolute darkness as your eyes struggle with the sudden change and stumbling over your garden holes will be the least of your problems
So that's the reason, why, the flight attendants dim the cabin
Lights during taxi so that your eyes have time to adapt to the darkness and are ready in case of an emergency
also keep in mind
That the pilots will shut down the engines according to the evacuation checklist
Which results in an ac power loss
Therefore the emergency exit light switch
Is kept in the armed position so that the onboard batteries power the
Emergency exit signs above the doors and the emergency escape lights fitted in the cabin
Floor to guide you to your nearest exit the emergency evacuation leads us directly to the tray tables now imagine you're
Sitting in an aisle seat with. Your tray table down using your laptop during landing although it's prohibited
Due to unfortunate landing you are then requested to evacuate the plane, you grab your laptop but you don't stow
The table and the passenger in the middle seat and in the new window seat lose precious
Seconds as their evacuation path is blocked now
You might say how hard can it be for a passenger in the middle seat to stow the table during evacuation
Once the evacuation is initiated by the evacuation horn
Your heart rate will rise to 180 and more within a second you panic
And some people can't do the easiest things during a panic situation
Trust me so stow your
Table and here comes a plane hack
You want to check out yourself now this is the locking lever you see at most tables but only a few tables come with
This little knob next to the lever
So what's up with that if you see one of those you're sitting near an emergency exit for example next to the overwing
Emergency exit on an airbus A320, this little knob prevents the lever from moving into its open
Position, whilst the passengers squeeze through that narrow
Gap during an evacuation as you
See it's literally the small things in life that matter the most the same goes for
Reclining the backrest if your backrest is reclined the passenger right behind you
Hasn't got enough headspace in case he has to get into the brace position prior touchdown
Also a reclined backrest could be obstructive during evacuation, and finally their window
blinds, why do they need to be open
Primarily so that you and the flight attendants see what's going on outside of the plane now
Back to our engine fire situation if you see flames piling up out of the engine on your side of the plane you know
You do not want to exit on that side of the plane so the flight attendants will direct you, away
From any potential danger and in some cases even open the door of the hazardous side of the plane
Also, by the time you evacuate the plane the local fire brigade will have arrived
And wants to evaluate the situation
By looking through the cabin windows and if there's a fire inside the plane they need to take necessary
Actions now you might question, how
Dare the flight attendant not open
Another vital exit, planes are built and tested such that all the passengers can
Evacuate the plane within 90 seconds through half the available
Emergency exits so i strongly advise you follow the instructions given
By the cabin crew last but not least leave your hand luggage behind
otherwise you're potentially
Endangering the life and safety of other passengers i hope you enjoyed this short video about another safety feature on
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