Originally Posted by
aviatorzz
Personally, I think this policy is back assward and that only the F/As should open the door because I would have been in a world of hurt had the F/A not noticed she forgot to disarm the slide.
I agree, as it used to be the way with PMDL. I believe the policy was changed to align with PMNW....it may have had something to do with the union. On certain aircraft there is a light to tell if the slide is armed or not but the MD-88 is not one of those.