Originally Posted by
fezzington
They're also a tripping hazard. We did a mock evac in a simulator (nothing official, but when you have to practice it 15 times in a day, you get time to experiment), and put chargers in some rows. Almost every row that had chargers, had someone trip into the aisle when smoke was added in (low-vis). And these were people that knew they were there.
See, this makes perfect sense. Why can't they just explain that, instead of coming up with ridiculous stories such as "they will surge during takeoff because the engines are running at full power", as an FA recently told me...