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« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2016, 02:05:18 AM »

12. Planes don’t need 2 engines to fly.

Confirmed: Most large commercial aircraft can fly with only one engine if needed.

Source: Me. The pilot.

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« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2016, 02:05:23 AM »

13. Your pilot is asleep most of the time.

1/2 of pilots sleep while flying and 1/3 of the time they wake up to find their partner asleep.
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« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2016, 02:05:30 AM »

14. Skymall is a ripoff.

All of the stuff in Sky Mall can be purchased on the internet for much less money.
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« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2016, 02:05:40 AM »

15. How your checked bags are really handled.

If it says fragile, it’s getting thrown harder. If it’s says this side up, it’s going to be upside down. We have to fit freight and 100+ bags in a cargo pit. It has to fit how it’s going to fit... I will tell you that when we see "I heart baggage handlers" bag tags... We take special care of your sh*t.
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« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2016, 02:05:52 AM »

16. Things are incredibly DIRTY.

I worked for Southwest as a flight attendant. Those blankets and pillows? Yeah, those just get refolded and stuffed back in the bins between flights. Only fresh ones I ever saw were on an originating first flight in the morning in a provisioning city. Also, if you have ever spread your peanuts on your tray and eaten, or really just touched your tray at all, you have more than likely ingested baby poo. I saw more dirty diapers laid out on those trays than food. And those trays, yeah, never saw them cleaned or sanitized once.

...don’t drink the water or water-based products (coffee, tea): the water tanks on an airplane accumulate grime and fungus and are notoriously hard to properly clean. look for bottled water.

The drinking water, that used for making coffee, tea, ect., should NEVER be consumed. The holding tanks in these sometimes 60 year old planes are never cleaned. They have accumulated so much greenish grime on the walls that in some places it can be inches thick.

This one is very known by all airline employees. I work and study in all aspects of the aviation industry and can tell you nothing is proformed intuitively.
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« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2016, 02:05:58 AM »

17. Security is not perfect.

There are actually legitimate security loopholes that, if widely known, would let average citizens get right next to airliners, runways, and taxiways. Like any system, if you know how it works, you know where the cracks are.
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