Friday, February 8, 2008

DAY NINE (SAFETY DEMO)

Hey everyone sorry for not posting yesterday, I was really tired and just hit the sack. So forgive me if this entry isn't to lengthy. Thursday we spent learning the "Safety Demo" which if you've ever flown you're familiar with, if not it goes something like this:

We start the CD which has a prerecorded message for the passengers and we follow along with the CD and "demo" the equipment.

It starts out to inform passengers or (PAX) the industry term for "passengers" to follow along in their Safety Information Card located in their seat back pocket. With some other stuff the lady on the CD says. We stand at Row 3 show the card then to Row 1 and display the card. Next is the seat-belt demonstration, start at Row 3 and finish at Row 1. After that is the Oxygen Mask demo, at Row 1 then Row 3. Finally we display the Safety Information Card section information the PAX of instructions to take in the "Unlikely Event" of a water landing or "ditching." Now keep in mind that ALL of the demo that we do HAS precise hand movements-that coincide exactly with a certain phrase. It is a very strict guideline we must follow as to where I hands must be positioned when showing, how to hold the demo equipment and so on.

After learning how to actually do the demo, we went out to the plane that night to demo it on the plane for real practice. For those of you, who haven't ever been to a hanger its a pretty amazing thing. The building which is about four football fields long and about 10 stories tall is filled with planes and service equipment. Anyway it was pretty fun, we got back around 2am and we stayed up till about 3am studying. Ok now for Friday's post.  

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