I find the seats on the Embraer the most uncomfortable aircraft seat ever, including any small aircraft I've flown on.
Greg -----Original Message----- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Floyd Thursby via Mercedes Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2019 10:04 AM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Floyd Thursby Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Frogbarge seats (observations on flying) Now think about these seats if you are 6'4" tall There's no room to open a computer now, the seat pitch is too small --FT On 5/30/19 1:01 AM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: > First an explanation: Frog = french. barge is something that > floats and may be pushed in any direction. > > airbus=frog plane therefore it is also a frogbus. or a frogbarge. > > > Its been a while since I flew domestic airlines. Over the past few > days, flew 4 flights. 3 of then were on frogbus, A319, 320, 321. > THe other was on a 747, designed about 1976-77. The seats on the > frogbarges have a "pillow" at the top of the seat cover that forces > your head forward. I found the seats to be very uncomfortable because > of the unnatural head forward position. > > Incidentally, the dogde van has "headrests" that protruded in front of > the seat also, forcing your into a headdown position. This makes the > muscles in the back of your neck work all the time to keep your head > up so you can drive. It is quite fatiguing. On the dogde, I noticed > the rods supporting the headrests looked the same size and spacing as > out 80s MB cars. So, I pulled one out, and compared it to the MB > headrests I had. Bingo! The van now has 2 blue MB headrests and no > longer forces you into an uncomfortable position. > > The 757 was the 3rd flight, and a long one. it was noticeably more > comfortable to sit in the 757 seat. > > Some other things have changed a lot. > 1. on all 4 flights, all the window covers were down all the time. > These were all daylight flights, over the cont. US, and generally good > visibility. There was plenty to see. > 2. On the 3rd flight, nearly 10% of the passengers were wheeled onto > the plane in wheelchairs. (236 passengers) I've seen 2-3 > wheelchairs before, but this jetway had the wheelchairs stacked up > like grocery carts. > 3. Probably another 8% had walkers, canes or otherwise needed extra > time to board. > 4. All flights were near a holiday, but I only saw 1 computer used on > a plane. (it was a Mac) (I saw maybe a couple tablets) > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- --FT _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
