Have you ever wondered about the best seats on a plane? Or, why you have to turn off electronics while flying?
Well now we have some insight!
Recently, Away.com interviewed three pilots about some interesting topics. Here are some of our favorite.
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How to Avoid Motion Sickness
A lot of people are scared to fly because of turbulence and motion sickness. Well it turns out, that some seats are better than others.
If you are susceptible to motion sickness, your best bet is to sit over the wing. An airplane is like a teeter-totter. When the pilot moves the nose of the plane up or down, the seats in the extreme front and back are going to move a greater distance. And as a rule, the tail tends to move more than the front, so stay away from the rear if motion is a problem for you.
Even Pilots Don’t Get Free Lunches
Flying used to be glamorous. Everyone got dressed up, there was plenty of space and food was given out freely.
Not anymore.
Now, there are additional fees for every little thing.
Thanks to the airline bankruptcies starting in 2000, few U.S. domestic airlines still provide food to its crews. As pilots we are allowed to eat in the cockpit once we’re at cruising altitude, but we’re usually eating something from the food courts in the airport terminal: pre-prepared wrapped sandwiches, slices of pizza. Not quite the glamorous lifestyle it used to be.
Why You Have to Turn off Your Electronics
When you board the plane, you sit down and start to settle in.
Sometimes this means opening the in-flight magazine or book. But it also means you literally have seconds before you have to turn off your electronics.
So you rush to send your last Text or Email, before someone comes by and tells you to shut it all down.
Well, here’s why:
Nothing has ever been proven, but there is a lot of anecdotal evidence that electronics really interfere with an aircraft’s flight instruments. The most likely culprits are things that transmit a signal, like a cell phone or a computer operating in Wi-Fi mode, which emits an electronic pulse or wave. But new aircrafts are being engineered for the wireless age so you should see more and more allowance of electronic devices in the future.
You can read the whole article with 7 other secrets here at Away.com.
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