Originally Posted by
Can I help you
The reason that this should not have been done is because there is a fire risk as the lights get very hot and the paper could have caught on fire.
You can turn normally turn off any of the reading lights at the panel in the CSD’s office, you do this by selecting the zone and turning all reading lights to off and then back to normal which gives each customer the option of switching the light on.
Originally Posted by
BingBongBoy
Fire hazard...
Of course you're both correct and I double and triple checked the temperature of this thing. It did get hot, but not dangerously hot....
By the way: Are more modern planes equipped with LEDs
(a geek like me would like to think that new cabins, i.e. NF should certainly come with that?! - no idea though)?
Fortunately IMHO it would take a bit more to start a fire. The tissue wasn't directly on the bulb, but there still is a bit of plastic around it..
But I don't mean to argue. You are correct and the CSD probably didn't necessarily follow elf and safety procedure.
Long story short: I was very happy, nothing happened, and I couldn't have known about the ability to "reset" the lights from the CSD's office. That's useful to know for the future!