Care to expound on that snippet?
People! (:)) I am not suggesting being completely unrestrained in the aisle chair. But just like you in your seat, I would be secured with an over-the-lap seatbelt.
I’m a little unclear why the cross-chest seat belts are a problem. I assume you wear a standard shoulder belt when you drive, or for that matter when you’re a passenger and someone else is driving.
I think what he is saying is that at a certain point no one can stay on their feet or restrain themselves when an airplane is going through violent motions due to turbulence or whatever, and that with only two functional limbs you’d be at a greater disadvantage than the able-bodied, which might lead to you being injured to the point of being incapacitated and needing to be carried by another.
But I’m not entirely sure.
On a narrow moving chair while the plane is in motion?
I don’t think so.
LMAO, well thank GOD, you are nobody.
Well under THAT scenario I’d agree that I’d need to be carried. But look back at what I said earlier. That was the one situation in which I did say I would find being carried apropo.
I, unlike you, have been in the aisle chairs before. I know, and I’m only speaking for myself here, that the one over-the lap seatbelt would be adequate to secure me in the chair.
He’s saying if the aircraft goes engine-out on one wing and spins and you are suddenly sprawled halfway into Row J because your torso wasn’t strapped in, he doesn’t want people to have to extract your ass from the other passengers instead of just pushing your chair someplace safe and secure.
- I have had to use that chair before.
- Please show me the studies that tell us that 1 lap belt is adequate to secure the average handicapped person on a moving aisle chair during mild to severe turbulence.
It’s o.k. if he breaks the arm of a passenger he slams into-he’s got a waiver!
All these hypotheticals, the ones where I’m just flying all over the place completely out of control, are getting absurd. I am the one who knows what the dynamics of the aisle chair experience are, not all you loud mouths. Sure, you can concoct all these crazy, implausible scenarios as the “worst case situations”, but you still have absolutely no idea what the chair itself is like or what I am like. My advice is to bite your tongues. If I am belted in with a standard seat belt, FOR ME, this is plenty. Now for the paralyzed from the neck down quadraplegic, those additional belts are necessary. But under no circumstances would I ever be in the position that you are describing. If severe turbulence happened, out of the whole duration of the flight, the minute or two I was in the aisle chair, the belt, plus my ability to additionally secure myself with my arms would prevent any such disaster. Now, I would say in the case of HORRIBLE emergencies, that which are potentially deadly, EVERYONE would be in the same boat.
Are you saying that I told a lie when I said I have used that aisle chair?
Thirty passengers injured, one critically
One killed, 102 injured in turbulence
Yeah, ‘hypothetical’. ‘Implausible’.
As a pilot, one thing that irks me when I fly commercially is how passengers think airplanes are just really fast buses. They’re not. The rules are there for everyone’s safety. But I’ve noticed that many people think the rules shouldn’t apply to them. After all, they’re autonomous adults.
“Now, I would say in the case of HORRIBLE emergencies, that which are potentially deadly, EVERYONE would be in the same boat.” One thing that irks me is when people post without reading.
I’m sorry, all these posts can get mistaken for one another. When and why did you have to use one?
Ah, I see. Then I want to be on a plane with you, since nothing horrible will ever happen to a plane you’re one. :rolleyes:
Yes, everyone will be ‘in the same boat’. Except for the ones who followed the rules and kept their belts on as instructed. And most of the others will be more capable of moving than you are.
Does the airline share this dynamic knowledge? If they don’t know you and the extent of your mad chair-fu skillz, shouldn’t they take additional precautions? After all, not all paraplegics are as dynamic as you claim you are.
A few years back I had an aneurysm at the base of my skull, and came within a couple of hours of dying. After they scraped out some swollen material, it took me a while to relearn how to walk and talk. Mom insisted on taking care of me, so I flew out for a visit. Care to guess how I made it to the bathroom on the flight out? Twice?
?Huh? Ok, it’s already been established that the rules in place regarding disabled passengers are designed to be able to accomodate the most severely disabled people. I am not suggesting being in the aisle chair unbelted and unsecured. What I am suggesting is some sort of system (that may even be too strong of a word) that allowed some realistic flexibility (which a competent attendant is more than capable of exerting) when a significantly less-disabled passenger happens to need to use the chair. I don’t know where you are coming up with the notion that I think I’m immune to plane disasters. :rolleyes: