Paging car crash experts

Especially in a 4X4 when off roading. Some Land rover drivers have been
killed in a roll over due to high lift jacks and toolboxes being thrown
around inside the vehicle.

Here endeth todays cautionary/gory tale ;-)

Cheers,

Paul.

 

Anything that stops those selfish twats reclining themselves into my
lap gets my vote.

Cheers

Paul.

 

Nidge said:

cabin

OK. Who else counts the number of headrests between their seat and the
exit?

In other words, stomp over everyone between you and the door. During a
long flight, I do occasionally ponder how I would react, especially
when travelling with the family.

 

Do you keep the pony tail in a box?

 

That'll be me then.

I saw one of these crash assesments where they got people to file out
after a simulated survivable accident in an orderly fashion, it took
over 5 minutes and they decided every one that took for than 30 seconds
to get out was "dead". Then they did it again, filled the plane with
smoke and told people to get out at all costs and a fairly effective
simulation of a riot took place with people shoving others out of the
way etc etc. They ended up with a few broken bones and a few people
that would have been killed in the rush, but they got more out as
"survivors". Obviously it's all going to go to ratshit and if you've
more than a few rows from the doors, you're dead.

One of my mate's said how he flew on an internal Chinese flight and
they didn't do a safety briefing as he's used to, so asked the cabin
crew why not and got the reassuring answer "we crash - you die", which
is probably what would happen.

 

backwards.


Not scary for you, but the airlines have to take account of the lowest
common denominator and the wobbly bottom lip types.

The wierdest one I've flown on was a Royal Flight BAe125 (ie a biz-jet)
which had a side facing 2 seat sofa in the cabin. That was odd both on
take off and whenever the plane banked....

 

So what have you got against Gillian Taylforth?

 

His knob by the sound of it.

 

And making the seats rear-facing alleviates this problem?

 

AndyW says...

I've done crash exit simulations at Cranfield Uni. I got out of the
front door from all positions in the plane within the first 10 people
out.

If you're ever in that situation, sit by a window, wait until everyone
is standing and squeezing themselves into the aisle, stand on your seat
and kick the seat in front. It will collapse forwards and then you can
run over its back and keep doing the same all the way to the exit. When
you get to the exit elbow some **** in the face and shove in front of
them and then out of the plane.

That's what I did and it worked every time.

 

Heh, saw that on a documentary years ago about the Manchester airport fire.

ISTR one of the guys was a fireman. Realised that being in a metal tube
surrounded by combustible materials and Oxygen cylinders overhead was Not A
Good Thing.

As you say, whilst every other monger was blocking the aisles, trying to
take their fucking duty frees with them, he belted it across the top of the
seats, and consequently did not get toasted.


Completely OT: Got any ideas of the nearest Nitro stockists in Bristol?
Everyone's raving so much and my Schuberth is a) a bit past it, and b)
fucking noisy.

 

Dan White says...

I'll ask my colleague and email you tomorrow.

 

Great, ta.

 

I'm sure you've done your research, but have the people raving about
Nitros actually owned one for any length of time? I know nowt about
them meself, but my brother had one for a few months last year &
pronounced it the biggest pile of poo he'd ever bought.

The paint couldn't wait to escape from the outside, quickly followed by
bits of lining from the inside. When he wanted a flip at the NEC, he
wouldn't even consider the absurdly cheap Nitro based on his previous
experience - which is most unusual for him as he's strictly of the "buy
it cheap & chuck it after a year" school of thought (I don't think he's
ever paid more than a ton for a car).

Nitro snowboards on the other hand rock, but then again they aren't at
the cheap end of the market.

 

Krusty says...

I've done a few thousand miles in my N1200 since July last year, and it
looks like new, but then again I do look after all my gear. I don't
have to look after helmets, because I can send them back as used
samples and order another up FOC.

I've seen N311 Nitros that cost 39-99ukp that couriers have been using
for a year and they look fine. I've also seen the state of some of the
scooter boys Nitros and they are destroyed within a couple of months.
All depends on the fuckwit using it.

 

Maybe he just had a duff one, or the early ones had a few QC problems -
wouldn't be the first time. He does look after his kit so that won't
have caused it, but he also does huge mileages going to all the Vinnie
rallies so probably wears things out more quickly than most.

That line should be part of the consumer rights act really.

 

I would *love* to try the Vomit Comet.

 

Aye, that'd be good. It's been retired though and I don't know if they
replaced it with anything.

However, more than anything, else with the possible exception of flying
a Spitfire or going into Space, I want to do this:

http://www.thundercity.com/tc_lightning.htm

 

Lozzo wrote:

That's interesting. I always thought the best way would be to avoid
the aisle, but thought that clambering over the seats would take so
long you'd die anyway. Right. Noted.

 

It doesn't really matter because you are just a statistic
covered by an Insurance Policy. You are expendable. The Chinese
produce a new person every two seconds.

Regards Chris McBrien (ex-RAF VC-10 Flight Simulator and 99th Entry
RAF Halton)