Unexpected recognition pilots and flight attendants

Flight attendants, pilots or engineers tell us about the secrets of which the passengers do not know, traveling on your plane. Pilots and flight attendants honest answer about travel in the air, the mood on board, as well as what is going on in the cockpit. Warning: reading some of the responses can make twice ponder whether you fly.

1. True, behind the turning off all appliances on board the

"I -. Turn off pilot electronics on board is completely useless.

Mobile devices will not lead to a plane crash, but they are very annoying drivers. Just imagine that you are sitting in your cockpit, down to the destination, and hear the noise from more than a hundred mobile phones simultaneously. Because of this, I could not normally several times to land the plane. "

2. The pilots slept most of the time

Half of the pilots slept during the flight, and a third of cases, waking up, they see that their partner is also sleeping.

3. As a pilot approaching to land

When the aircraft landing in bad weather complicated, it is not because of the awkwardness of the pilot and is intentional. If the runway is covered by water, the plane has landed roughly to pierce a layer of water and to avoid sliding over it. Therefore, landing in rainy weather are nothing but a controlled fall.

4. The pilots are not more experienced, if they fly on the big plane

"I - a regional pilot Perhaps you bought a ticket to such airlines like." Delta "," United "or" American ", but most likely you will fly with the pilot of another company hired by larger airline to fly in this area . This means that pilots will be only a fraction of the experience, training and salaries, which are inherent to pilots working for the main flight line. in addition, not enough for me to pay for me to care about whether you have time on your transplant. Most of the time we fly more slowly than usual, to earn more den er. We fly a rapidly when the air traffic management compels us to do so, or when we're going home. "

5. The water in the toilets very dirty

"Whatever you do - do not drink the water in the bathroom's bad enough that you have to wash her hands We clean the water tank at regular intervals, but the microbes produced to cleaning agents resistance...

Inspect the exterior of the aircraft, when you go into it. If the aircraft paint in poor condition, the aircraft itself is not in the best condition. Skaydrol (Skydrol) (hydraulic fluid) is terrible substance capable cleaved everything in its path. Therefore, if there is no paint on some parts of the aircraft, then, most likely, there was a leak Skaydrola. leakage of fluid to the hydraulic system at an altitude of 10 kilometers of no use to anybody. Airplane impossible to stop on the roadside to refuel the tank. "

6. The truth about the flight with pets

"I -. Airfield fueling vehicle I would like to convey to all that you are being treated in an airplane with your pet in while your airline is taking all possible measures to alleviate the discomfort, some things to avoid is very difficult, for example, noise. ladder. I can not stand there without hearing protection, and now think about what your pets, who are sitting out there in the expectation that they have loaded on the aircraft, and subject to the same noise that I did. Please, people, think twice before you fly with your itomtsami ".

7. What flight attendants actually do after asking passengers to turn off their mobile device

"My sister is a flight attendant, she said that after she tells everyone to turn off all mobile devices, it goes to the cockpit, pulls out his phone and starts to write sms."

8. The only bottled water, you can drink in the plane

A former agent of the shipping airline "Lufthansa": "Never drink water on the plane, if you see that it is not in a bottle not even touch her point is that hatches for cleaning waste from latrines and refueling aircraft.. drinking water are 30 inches apart, and sometimes served by the same person. not always, but if you're not on the ladder and do not see this process, you will never know about it. "

9. Lightning and pilot's license

My father was a pilot in the airline for almost 20 years and, apparently, the planes are very often subjected to lightning strikes. Furthermore, if the passenger rolls fit when entering the aircraft, the pilot can disable him to go on board and can fly without one.

10. The plane is very difficult to fly on hot days

"I have been working on the ladder at Phoenix (Phoenix). In particularly hot days we had to ship the piece of luggage, because the airplanes could not fly in the thin air."