How to Escape Down an Airplane Slide

[Barb-SAN]

Article this week on www.time.com (http://www.time.com) about airplane evacuations: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1706188,00.html

Be sure to check out the YouTube video (linked below) of a test evacuation, and note how you are supposed to JUMP onto the slide, not sit down and slide down it. I didn't realize there were little lights along the edges of the inflated slide, but an illuminated slide certainly would be useful for night-time evacuations.

These kinds of videos are the closest that most of us will ever get to a "practice evacuation", so it's good to watch them and train ourselves mentally to react correctly in an emergency.

Boeing 777 Evacuation Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TAkAcQOnQY

[spiffyone]

I don't mean to sound like a nutcase, but I actually have thought about this a lot. (I am one of those people who wants to have the worst case scenario all figured out ahead of time so I know what to do. When those "Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook" joke books came out, my friends joked that they did not need to buy me one, as I would already have a plan for all those things.)
I would find it hard to jump into thin air. It helps to see the video and realize that is how you HAVE to do it...but it would seem scary.
New idea...they should have an adult play area in airports, like a playground, with a slide that you can practice going down (partly in fun, to relieve stress...but partly, seriously, to practice.)
They could have those jumpy balls in the bottom, like at Chuck E Cheese.
What do you think?

[Barb-SAN]

New idea...they should have an adult play area in airports, like a playground, with a slide that you can practice going down (partly in fun, to relieve stress...but partly, seriously, to practice.)
They could have those jumpy balls in the bottom, like at Chuck E Cheese.
What do you think?

I think the "play slide" at the airport is a great idea, along with an airplane dress code of no panty hose or high heels!

Those "Worse Case Scenario Survival Handbooks" are not joke books, by the way. I own a couple of them, and they are full of useful information. ;)

[spiffyone]

Actually, Barb, I suspect you contributed to some of them.

:tongue:

[Barb-SAN]

Actually, Barb, I suspect you contributed to some of them.

:tongue:
Touche....:tongue:

Edited to add...I just pulled out my copy, which is close at hand. I'd like to point out that "How to Land a Plane" is one of the "Worst Case Scenarios", along with "How to Perform a Tracheotomy". I suppose it would be wise to travel with that book in your carryon luggage, as there are also complete instructions for "Delivering a Baby in a Taxicab". I mean...you just never know when you will be called upon to perform.:lol:

[spiffyone]

Well, I can do #2 and #3 without the book...and you can prob do #1, so if we travel together we're all set.

:D

[Barb-SAN]

Well, I can do #2 and #3 without the book...and you can prob do #1, so if we travel together we're all set.
:D

And if traveling got too boring, you could do #1, and I'd try my hand at #2 and #3. :D