Pre-jetliner safety briefings

[Leftcoaster]

I mostly fly propliners and vintage airliners with FSPassengers and while it takes a bit of adjustment and tinkering, it's still fun. However I
have disabled the flight attendent's safety briefing when doing so because it just doesn't ring true. Describing actions to take when cabin
pressure drops in an unpressurized aircraft or warnings about electronic equipment and floor track lighting have no place on a Boeing
247D or Short S.30 flying boat for example. Lacking the skills and the kit to produce my own briefings got me to wondering, what the
safety briefing was like in the Thirties and Forties, when pressurized aircraft were rare, flight attendents were (mostly) registered nurses
or males trained to the level of marine stewards and problems like weather diversions and engine fires were almost the norm. Although
I have some ideas, they are mostly educated guesses and any insight that others out there might have on this rather obscure topic would
be most welcome.
Cheers

[SWAFO]

Leftcoaster wrote:
Lacking the skills and the kit to produce my own briefings...

All you need is a voice, and a microphone! Not too hard IMHO!

[yaoi161519]

While at it, What's the sound format does Dan use on FSPassenger. I know it's wav, but what kind of wav ?. PCM wav or.... ?

[jeremy19446]

Read the Mighty FAQ here

http://fspassengers.com/?action=faq&question=23

[SWAFO]

That does work! Keep in mind that there's also a link for the FAQ at many of the moderator's (including myself), and Dan's signature.
That page contains MUCH helpful information!

[Airliner]

Example of a DC-3 safety briefing:

Ladies and gentlemen,

Please direct your attention to the rear of the cabin. This is the EXIT door, not the lavatory! DO NOT OPEN! You won't like the result!

Additionally, if we encounter any turbulance and I do mean ANY, please remain seated, as standing up could cause serious injury - ie:
you could break your neck on the roof!

Finally, the meal on today's flight will be, you guessed it - fried chicken! If you insist on eating, please remember that is highly likely that,
as a result of the turbulence and the stench of urine and feces from the rear of the cabin, you will vomit at least once before the flight is
over. If this occurs, I don't want to know! I'm a stewardess, not a vomit bag! (Flight Attendant McCoy)

[Leftcoaster]

Thanks, Airliner. Glad to see that somebody actually took the effort to read my question, which was about announcement content and not
about producing new .wav files (or whatever) for FsP. Have read about the dreaded fried chicken box lunches but am unsure that early
cabin crews would have been quite as 'abrupt' as your samples. Regardless whether they actually felt that way or not. Still wonder what
safety announcements consisted of though, in the days when safety features were minimal by today's standards even if they were cutting
edge at the time.

Read today that Imperial Airways in the 1920's actually issued coats to passengers so that they wouldn't freeze and the first stewards
were embarked to retrieve the coats after the flight since pax tended to walk off with them. One can imagine all sorts of announcements
for that particular duty!

Cheers

[Mud]

No offence what so ever but take the effort to read a question is the way it is typed.
And I assure you for me as non english it are 8 long lines of characters

cheers

Mud



Post Edited ( 11-28-05 00:00 )

[Sovek]

Im half tempted to do that breifing too ::gets out the mike::