A tip : getting plane seats
Which one are you?
Left side aisle seater? Window seater?
Or on the right side?
Back of the plane or the middle?
Personally for me, if I were to travel to a country for a first time, I will go for the window seat. Photos of course...
The rest of the times I will go for the aisle seat. I know I'll be drinking a lot of water to compensate the cost of the ticket so I will visit the loo several times throughout the flight. Once, I had to get through a grumpy sleeping old man who was at the aisle seat. That traumatized me for good.
Today I will share with you what I've read ...
That is a picture of a plane door. You might or might not be familiar with that. I used to think the existence of that bulky thing below is disturbing but heck I was wrong. That is a life saver.
I knew that an escape slide is attached to the door but I thought it was hidden elsewhere. But in fact, it is stored in that box in the picture above.
This was what I meant.
Back to the topic.
I've never heard it personally but apparently, when the plane approaches the gates after arrival, the pilot of that plane will make an announcement from the plane to the waiting lounge by saying something like "Door Mode please" or "Disarmed position".
Here's the point. Airport attendants will reach the plane and change the mode of the door. The switching can only be done from outside of the plane.
If the plane door is opened from inside without switching the mode, the emergency slides will automatically release and inflate within 10 seconds.
Then just before departure, after the boarding is done and the plane doors are closed, the airport attendants are required to change the door mode again to "armed position" in which the escape slides are switched to automatic-release mode.
I'm not sure if the mode works automatically for all the plane doors with just one switch. The book did not specify it. If the door mode only works for that particular door, it means that the rest of the doors on the plane are always on armed position. I think... (correct me there if you know the truth)
So ... my thought is, ...
In an emergency, if you'd like to be the first few to escape, choose a seat on the right side of the plane, or the back. The doors there are never opened for boarding and alighting. So you don't have to worry if the airport attendant had forgotten to switch the mode. (which is quite impossible I assume)
Get it?
Anyway, here's a good site http://www.seatguru.com/
I am an all time window seater:P
Usually poor students like me here will only travel with Air Asia *actually almost 100% of students here are Air Asia's all time customers, hee..* Previously, there were free seating, so we can choose the seat we like as long as we are able to get into the plane before others, but nowadays we need t0 pay extra fee for choosing a seat...if n0t we will be randomly assigned to a seat....meh... Anyway, it is nice to seat nearby window especially in 1st morning flight, and evening around 5pm flight, cuz the view really sui oh :D
You mean, seat near the emergency door? I've twice seated there. You have to have the 責任 to open the door during any emergency. I've been briefed about how to open the door etc.
Made me sat on an edge!!! I'll pick the seat in front or the back of the emergency door please.