Asked to lower shade
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A cautionary note. Be very careful if you're lowering the shade, they jam very easily when lowered improperly.
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That's a lose for everyone. Pax in question, other pax, and FA - all of whom get a real dose of radiation. No wonder why those who care about their health and radiation exposure will never sit by a window on a plane. Of course, just one flight dose is not that much, but frequent fliers on the plane, and the FAs... it's really not subject to selfishly subject them to the extra unnecessary dose of radiation.
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Perhaps this recent window war was posted upthread?
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B5AVS3d...ource=ig_embed
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B5AVS3d...ource=ig_embed
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The plastic window shade does not protect you from cosmic radiation. The skin of the aircraft does not protect you from cosmic radiation.
That's a lose for everyone. Pax in question, other pax, and FA - all of whom get a real dose of radiation. No wonder why those who care about their health and radiation exposure will never sit by a window on a plane. Of course, just one flight dose is not that much, but frequent fliers on the plane, and the FAs... it's really not subject to selfishly subject them to the extra unnecessary dose of radiation.
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One must not interfere with a crew member performing their duties.
One is not required to follow all crew member instructions.
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Perhaps this recent window war was posted upthread?
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B5AVS3d...ource=ig_embed
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B5AVS3d...ource=ig_embed
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121.580 Prohibition on interference with crewmembers.
No person may assault, threaten, intimidate, or interfere with a crewmember in the performance of the crewmember's duties aboard an aircraft being operated under this part.
No person may assault, threaten, intimidate, or interfere with a crewmember in the performance of the crewmember's duties aboard an aircraft being operated under this part.
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Lower it if you will (inflight) but I will never understand people who lower or keep lowered those shades on take-off and landing (especially landing). Don't you want to SEE your proximity to the ground as you are descending as well as be "prepared" for that hard-slam dunk (or not) when you actually land ? Good grief, to be moving at hundreds of miles per hour in a metal tube with no perception of this is maddening to me.
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I can see it happening in the situation I was in back then. I was 10 flying solo. That's what's sad you gotta be a kid for it to happen and hardly any flights have a completly empty 1st class anymore anyway.