[nabs-l] airlines and federation history

[Jedi]

Josh,

Perhaps. However, in Walking Alone and Marching Together, Dr. Jernigan 
speaks of a test run they did where blind folks were in charge of 
opening emergency exit doors. They videotaped the whole thing and timed 
it; they found that the blind folks were as efficient as the sighted 
ones are expected to be. The reviewers of the tape did notice a slow 
down, but it was because flight attendents (trying to help of course) 
got in the way of the blind people's progress. Exit doors are going to 
be fairly consistent. If folks are worried about it, this kind of thing 
(opening the exit doors) could become part of our blindness training or 
part of some NFB workshop put on at a convention or something.

Respectfully,
Jedi

PS. The sighted folks opening the door may be at a disadvantage since, 
often, a cabin will be dark and they'll be too stressed out to sit and 
read the directions. Since that's normal for us, we actually have the 
advantage.


Original message:
> Hi

> Here's my thoughts on the whole exit row thing. If I'm sitting in the
> exit row and the plane crashes or begins to crash; I don't want to be
> sitting there trying to figure out the several steps needed to open that
> exit row door. I'd rather have a sighted person there, who can quickly
> read the directions and get that door open as quickly as possible.
> Rather than me sitting there fiddling around with it all the while
> insisting oh just hang on a moment I'll get it open, all the while,
> while I'm fiddling with the doorr, the plane is falling out of the sky,
> or sinking down into the river. There's some things in my opinion that
> its just more efficient and in case of an emergency, life-savin, that a
> sighted person well that I'd say, hey just let someone who can see who
> knows what they're doing, sit there so they can get the door open in the
> quickest time possible. the other thing is while you're sitting there
> trying to fiddle around getting the door open you got a plane full of
> pannicking people that want out of the plane, so someone comes along
> shoves you out of the way, gets to the door and  opens it. Then you got
> a bunch of pissed off people at ya because you didn't move right away.


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> Josh Kennedy jkenn337 at gmail.com

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