16 secrets airlines who told flight attendants

Some items airline regulations designed to ensure our comfort and safety during flight, though implicitly. Others go for the benefit of only air carrier. Here is what the flight attendants and pilots.

1. Subdued light in the plane needed to prepare for evacuation

When the aircraft touches down in the dark, dim lighting is turned to prepare for a possible evacuation of passengers. Your eyes will get used to the lack of light, and you will see better out of the plane. So do not get mad if you do this type of illumination is not possible to read.

2. The toilet door can be unlocked from the outside

The locking mechanism toilet door, usually hidden behind the sign "No smoking." You just need to lift the flap and move the bolt to unlock the door.

3. Air enters the plane of the engine

During the flight you are breathing compressed air from the engine. 25-50% is blown out, and the remaining passengers breathe. Air exits through a small hole in the rear of the fuselage.

It does not sound very nice. If disassembled from the technical side, it appears that you breathe air from the engine compressor.

On the Web site Boeing They explain: air passing through the compressor is warmed. Thereafter, it is sent to the cockpit, being breathable.

4. Blankets are not washed, and the table-tray is not dezinfetsiruyushchikh

Stewardess budget US airline Southwest said that free pillows and blankets are folded just after the flight back. About any washing and disinfection of speech is not. This was confirmed by another airline flight attendant.

On the tables, trays for food, people often change their diapers for children. If you drop it on the food, it is better to throw away immediately. Flight attendants simply wash table once a day, which is not enough if there been used diapers.

5. The captain can arrest you in flight

When the aircraft door is closed, the captain of the aircraft are given unlimited powers. He can arrest the passenger, prescribe a penalty and to act as trustee of the dying.

Of course, the captain is not the full legal right to arrest someone, but it can limit your freedom on board the aircraft and hand over to the authorities after landing. Police immediately arrested produce. During the voyage, you will be limited in their movements.

6. After takeoff the passenger can be converted into a first class

This does not happen so often, because such transfers shall be accompanied by a report and have objective reasons.

Some passengers who had paid for the economy, flying first class. Most often it is well-dressed, attractive people or pregnant women. Friends and acquaintances flight attendants under false pretenses may also fall in the first class.

7. Pilots can sleep during the flight time

43-54% of the pilots working in the UK, Norway and Sweden, have admitted that the passenger filled in time management plane.

Experienced flight attendants know that during long flights is assigned a break for sleep. Then control assumes the co-pilot.

Howbeit, pilotsParticipating in the survey admitted that they had fallen asleep at the wrong time.

8. Passengers steal lifejackets

They take them as souvenirs, though it is a serious and punishable offense.

During the day, the availability of life jackets is not monitored. Before the flight should check yourself, whether it is at your seat. In case of absence, please notify a flight attendant.

9. In the plane there are special pens in case the flight attendant push

During a flight, the following note on the door handle. That's right, they act as a handrail, but for what? In case of evacuation and panic on board when the flight attendants prepare a door in the plane, passengers wishing to leave it as soon as possible, a flight attendant can push out of the way right on the runway. The handrail is needed to ensure that it is kept and remains on the board.

10. You can get a whole can of Coke

If you are thirsty, you can get more than a sip of soda. Just politely ask the flight attendant. Most likely, she will be glad to help.

11. The mask will provide you with oxygen only 15 minutes

However, this is more than enough time for the pilot, which will lower the plane to the desired height, where you can breathe normally.

When the mask falls, the pilot is reduced as much as possible. In parallel, he searches for the nearest an airport for planting. Typically, search the height at which you can breathe without the aid of masks, it takes 10 to 20 minutes. It depends on the altitude at which the aircraft is at the time of depressurization.

12. Sometimes flight attendants do not serve dinner

On the night flight attendants maximum retard the time of the meal, to avoid fuss.

13. The water in the aircraft is hazardous to health

Never drink water on the plane, if it is not from a bottle. Better not to even touch it. In the ports of cleaning toilets and filling of clean water produced almost side by side, and sometimes both in general makes one serving.

The process of replenishing water supplies may be different in different airlines, but alarming one study Wall Street Journal.

In 2002, water samples were taken from 14 different flights, and it turned out that the level of bacteria in the tens or even hundreds of times higher than the established norm in the United States. It is better to use an antiseptic hand wash and buy water after passing inspection. Otherwise, your bottle a volume greater than 100 ml are confiscated.

14. Employees pay only from the moment the aircraft leaves the ground

Some airlines only pay their employees from the moment when the landing gear off the ground. delay clock is not paid, although sometimes the difference in time spent in the air and his actual work time, including delays on the ground, just enormous. For airlines, this is a great way to save.

This is the case not all the airlines. Some are paid from the moment the aircraft door is closed, and employees are rewarded for departure hours of waiting.

15. Pilots receive different food poisoning case

Share food pilots are also prohibited. This is done to avoid food poisoning. Even if stroganoff proved dangerous to the stomach of the main pilot, the second ate the stew. He will remain in good health and be able to properly control the aircraft.

16. Flight attendants do not turn off electronics during flight time

After the flight attendant says to turn off all laptops, iPods and so on, it is possible that she herself would use a smartphone.

The rules concerning the prohibition of use in electronics, almost everywhere canceled. Some of inertia airline announce a ban, but it is only a matter of time.

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