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From: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Airliner cabin lights query
Message-ID: <17661@styx.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 01:58:08 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 18 01:58:08 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Dec-85 02:11:07 EST
Reply-To: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
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Organization: Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore, CA
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One thing that has always puzzled me as a passenger in airliners 
is that the flight crew always dims or turns off the cabin lights
during night/evening takeoffs.  I asked a flight attendant, who mumbled 
something about a "safety regulation".  While I can see that there is 
a trivial increase in fire danger (since *some* lights are always left 
on), and their use consumes a trivial amount of electricity from the power
plants that conceivably could be channeled to thrust, it seems to me
that the increased visibility for the flight attendants in case of
trouble would be a reason to keep them on.  Anybody know anything
about this?

Michael C. Berch
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