A question someone asked me.

[MedDreamer]

Seeing this forum is made up of so many well heeled and much travelled people I thought I would seek an answer on here

If I got on plane in Cairo and flew over the Sahara to (say) Morocco, do the crew still do the lifejacket drill?

You would be bloody lucky to find a wadi to land in I would have thought - and equally unlucky if you ended up drowning in it because you didn't have a lifejacket.

Martyn

 

[bobupanddown]

In terms of a UK registered aircraft it is probably not required but it would be done anyway as the safety drill is standardised to cover all situations. Apart from which some problem may result in the aircraft not going to its original destination resulting in travel over water.

 

[Dave_Snelson]

Good question - and one that you could apply to Antarctica, Northern American continent, Australian continent, and Sino-Russia. Hmmmm...off to have a think now, being as we are quiet at work.. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[jfm]

Yup, they do it whenever flying over any water. So internal US flights do it becos of the lakes etc, frexample.

Fairly irritating imho, when they DEMAND "please pay attention even if you are a frequent flyer" and then scowl at you if you so much as look at your newspaper during the briefing, even if it's your 3rd flight that day.

Also they say turn off mobile phones then prance up the aisle not stopping folk using blackberries, as they dont seem to realise they are mobile phones.

Oops, ranting, sorry

 

[itsonlymoney]

I would have thought yes. Lifejacket and exit point drill is surely a standardised thing and as previously stated were airlines are concerned, were you are meant to go and were you end up are two different things. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[MedDreamer]

Great Name

Now and again I see new posters names and wish I'd thought of that. Yours is a cracker, the other one I particuarly like is Jim Buoy.

Oh and welcome to the forum, as long as you are thick skinned and dont have a Sealine, Bayliner or Land Rover Discovery you will enjoy it

Martyn

 

[itsonlymoney]

Re: Great Name

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as long as you are thick skinned and dont have a Sealine, Bayliner or Land Rover Discovery you will enjoy it.
Two out of three not bad I spose.........
PS
Just realised something really funny.
jim44 - has got a bayliner and a sealine and a couple of land rovers /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[MedDreamer]

Re: Great Name

I'm two out of three as well /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[tcm]

ooh yes, the lifejacket drill is just a means of making people feel that the stewardesses are in charge a bit, and not merely there to shag the pilots. I have done lots of only-overland flights and all do the demo. And anyway, what about if the plane got hijecked hm - you would definitely want to know you had a nice lifejacket i reckon.

I have also tested v severely that the planes do not fall out of thhe sky with a mobile phone by making lots of calls in buses driving round gatwick, and on board a planer by leaving the phone on silent rather than actually turning it off and the plane has never ever gone potty and crashed, so they're wrong about that.

 

[PhilF]

what if it had?

 

[mirage]

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Also they say turn off mobile phones then prance up the aisle not stopping folk using blackberries, as they dont seem to realise they are mobile phones.


[/ QUOTE ]

You can turn the radio off on a BlackBerry without turning the unit off.

 

[Tony7]

Yes you can turn radio off, but the system is not approved by the CAA yet which is why they say " your mobiles must be turned off, this includes phones with flight mode facility"

The answer to main question is Yes you have to do life jacket briefing under CAA rules, other authorities will have own rules.

 

[Bergman]

No not lakes and things

They do the act to a tape and as hairyplanes sometimes go over sea and sometimes don't, it saves the cost of a second tape if they do the same routine every trip.

Those tapes are expensive

 

[FlyingDutchman]

In my experience, if the safety demo is on video, they use the same tape every time.
If it is not on a tape and the flight is over land, the life vest is not demonstrated.
I have always wondered if there are kown survivors of planes crashed onto water that survived because of the live jacket?
I can not imagine this as the plain will fall to pieces hitting the water at such a high speed. So for me it is a useless piece of equipment on a plane.

 

[Jim44]

Re: Great Name

I just realised I had the full house as well.

Oh well never mind I put it down to jealousy!!! Most people on here who slag of the products dont have them anyway!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif