Practicing taking an exit door off an airplane
 

I was thinking airlines should offer a practice area at airports when passengers could practice taking a real exit door off a simulated airplane.

Have you ever seen such an area.

How about a practice area for airplane slides?

I think this would be an extremely valauble safety training.

I've never seen anything like this, but if nothing else, it might be fun! Especially the part about practicing using the slide. Would such a thing fall under the aegis of the TSA? If so, it might be a wonderful vehicle for them for some sorely needed positive education and outreach.

Then again, being reminded of the possiblity of an air accident, however slim, might scare more people than would benefit from something like this!

Practicing the slide wouldn't be such a great idea, many people receive friction burns and broken/sprained lower extremities when using the slides in a real emergency. I can only imagine the potential for litigation for something like this.

A reward for teaching people about safety? :rolleyes:

If you know how to slide, your chance of surviving an emergency slide
without burns or burns are high. But I am wondering who would offer
such practice/training... airlines, manufacturers, NTSB??

They could a nice pool at the bottom of the slide to reduce impact injuries (and help train for a water evacuation!)

Of course, there'd have to be a jacuzzi, sauna, and complimentary swim-up drink service as a reward for helping to make flying safer.

Might be? Dude, I would PAY to do that (outside an accident scenario, of course).

I would pay significantly more to use the slide during an "accident scenario".

When TWA was headquartered here in STL, teachers could take their students to the "cabin simulators" that they used for training their flight attendants. GREAT fun---we got to try out the oxygen masks, the doors, all that cool stuff. AND, if the training center staff were in a REALLY good mood and their multi-million dollar cockpit simulators were unscheduled at the time, one could "practice" flying the plane.

Not sure if other airlines allowed that then, or now....one would likely have to live at a hub city or something.

Best not to try this in flight, from what I've heard.

In all seriousness, though, all exit doors I've seen are a little different, so what might be the procedure on a CRJ, for example, is different from a 757.

I once got stuck on a 7x7 between two Eagles (I'm a big guy @6' 240, but not next to them) in the exit rows and when the FA came by to ask if we were "able to operate the door" the guy at the door said: "I'll open the door."

The aisle guy said "I'll pick up the little guy."

Anyway, would love to have a trial of pulling a door and sliding.

Good example.

It would be good to see these differenences first hand.

Also, it would be good to actually play with a realy oxygen mask,

I'd imagine that opening an exit door is more difficult that it appears, especially during an actual emergency where there's the chance the airframe will have shifted. The more people can practice opening the doors, the better, IMO.

Who want's to open the world's first airplane-based water slide/amusement park/mini-golf with me here on Maui?

tempting... do you have a business plan in place?

It's my understanding that in cities where airlines have crew training centers, they sometimes have "open house" days where they let members of the public come and try out some of the safety training drills. They might even practice the slide sometimes. I very much doubt that they still allow non-employees in the cockpit simulators, but I don't see that there would be any security issue with the passenger cabin safety drills.

If you are interested in doing drills, perhaps you should write to the airlines' training depts. and ask about such events?