Originally Posted by GBOAC
What is the reason for keeping your belt fastened once you've landed and have cleared the active runway (i.e. so there's no chance of a go-around)? ... Remain seated, etc. all makes perfect sense. So is 'with your seatbelts fastened' just a way to try and more easily enforce this?
No aviation safety expert here, but just (I hope) a bit of common sense.
You turn off the active runway. However, you're still bowling around the airfield in a vehicle which is doing maybe up to 50 mph. It's got some very powerful brakes, and occasionally needs to use them when something happens.
You wouldn't sit in a car without your seat belt on in these circumstances, so why shouldn't the same advice be equally good for an aircraft?