Seats upright and shutters up please
Posted on May 22, 2007
Filed Under Life Stuff, Observations |
I always try and learn something new. And today, I found out exactly why you can’t use your electronic equipment during aircraft take off and landing, and also why you have to have seats in upright and shutters open.
On reading comments here I read:
You can use a whole host of electronic equipment on an aircraft (gameboy, laptop, personal audio player) with no ill effects.
The reason you can’t use any of these devices during take-off and landing is little to do with interference with the aircraft’s electronics. It’s more to do with the fact that take-off and landing are the most incident-prone scenarios. You’re much more likely to crash at this point (or rather, more likely to crash and be able to do something about it - such as evacuate the plane) and they don’t want you distracted by anything.
Similarly the cabin lights are ‘dimmed during take-off and landing’ to allow your eyes to adjust to the outside light before evacuating to give you the best chance. Same theory applies to keeping the blinds up.
Slightly chilling, but interesting to know.
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