V-Flyer

Any of the FF's on here been on this course?
http://www.ebaft.com/fsa/fsa.htm

Just curious about feedback from the course and how it might have changed your perspectives...one testamonial calls it "sobering..."

I havent done that but it definitely looks sobering and actually useful.

I know on the BA board on flyer talk some one arranged for a group to do this course.

Can't remember what the conclusion about how useful (or not) it was though.

Concorde RIP wrote:Any of the FF's on here been on this course?
http://www.ebaft.com/fsa/fsa.htm

Just curious about feedback from the course and how it might have changed your perspectives...one testamonial calls it "sobering..."

A friend of mine did this course some time ago and he too would have described it as sobering. I had been talking about the Virgin America safety demo and especially the bit where it says "if you are one of the 0.00001% of the population who do not know how to tie your seat belt" (or words to that effect) and railing about how airlines tell you how to fasten the seat belt during the safety demonstration when we are all virtually immobile from the said belts but he spoke of how disorientated one is especially in a smoke filled cabin and how many people instinctively tried to unfasten seat belts as if they were in their cars.

Some of the aspects I learned from him were certainly sobering and stopped me in my tracks!

Hmmm, interesting. I guess this would be the closest anyone gets to a "real" emergency, and of course, none of us really know how we would react in such a situation.

Back in the early 90's, when I worked for British Aerospace, employees were asked to volunteer for evacuation trials on the then new BAE146 as part of it's certification.

Everyone sit down, wait for the wistle, and see how quickly you could get off.

At the time, most of us treated it as a bit of a laugh and something that broke up the work day a bit - not real at all.

If they simulated smoke and chaos, I can well imagine that it would be a whole new ballpark.

Sobering indeed...

honey lamb wrote: but he spoke of how disorientated one is especially in a smoke filled cabin and how many people instinctively tried to unfasten seat belts as if they were in their cars.

Some of the aspects I learned from him were certainly sobering and stopped me in my tracks!

Isn't that one of the reason why VS changed the belt buckles to the 'car type' ones in their Upper Class cabins? No idea why the other cabins don't have this buckle type though?

Or is it because of the airbag?

Darren Wheeler wrote:Or is it because of the airbag?

There is an airbag on the seatbelt in UC? I wondered why it was so thick :-0