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Simon Bennett with Mayday, Millie talking,

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everything aviation and a little on

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the side.

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Welcome to episode eight of everything, aviation

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and a little on the side, made a million

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is going to be putting a uniform on for this episode,

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stick around and you'll soon

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find out why, but before we get into

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uniforms,

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Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night.

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Oh, it certainly is returned to your seat

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and Fasten your seatbelts . How many safety demonstrations

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as the sentence been featured on amongst

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the airlines? And honestly, how many

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of us follow these simple instructions?

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We get into cars pretty much every day of our lives

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and put our seatbelts on without even thinking

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one. Well, because it's the law too

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. It's for the safety of ourselves. And of course

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those traveling with us, but why is

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it when we choose to travel

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by air? We feel

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that it's more of a hindrance to where

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one of these little things, are we being

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defiant, naughty little children,

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or is it just down to plain ignorance

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because we just don't really see

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or appreciate the significance

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of it. Uh , look, Mayday. Millie joins me

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every week on this series and has well

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she's someone with 20 years experience, basically

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with one of the world's leading airlines. And I'm

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sure you'll agree that the word safety

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is not a word that she uses lightly

1:20

Mayday. We've spoken about safety and flying

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many times during our friendship over the

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last 20 years or so. And your thoughts

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around this topic have never changed.

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I know you've seen it all, but I

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guess what I really want to ask you is

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are there really that many people that you

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have to remind, you know, when you walk

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down the aisle doing the pre-flight

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checks with the passengers that you have

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to remind to buckle up before

1:44

takeoff, you still see that.

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Maybe that was my problem, Simon.

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It's the way that I'm saying it. Maybe I should

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say Fasten your seat belts

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and buckle up. I'm just

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about to cut you off. It's

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always widened. And I went your

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honor ,

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the radio we're on air . Don't say

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that word fascinate . Yes,

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I agree.

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You had this. That's what I'm going to start

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saying, because generally, if you go

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, you know , excuse me, can you Fasten your seatbelt?

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People don't really want to listen, but maybe if

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I go Fasten your seatbelts,

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buckle up, I'll get more people

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to do it. Yay. Are you going to come

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with me on this? I'll definitely

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be with you on that because I would definitely put my

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newspaper down. I'm not one of those that

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sits there and reads the newspapers throughout the

2:33

entire safety demonstration. Actually,

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I have observed people doing that as

2:38

soon as well. Sometimes it's video. Sometimes

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it's done manually, you know, whatever, it doesn't matter.

2:42

You still gotta pay attention. And it's a certain

2:45

respect that you have to have for the

2:47

crew that are demonstrating

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the safety features of the aircraft. Even if

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you're flying all the time, just put your paper

2:53

in your magazine down and pay attention,

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you know, give them some eye contact

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because I guarantee you , you

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will not be asking any of those passengers that

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have hidden behind a newspaper to help you in the event

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of an emergency. You'll be looking for the one that's

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actually looking at you and paying attention because you

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know, they've probably got, you know , it

3:10

up here to do the right thing

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and maybe open the door the right

3:14

way if they need to, in

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my mind, have any of you know exactly what

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I do when I'm doing that demonstration

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and everyone's reading their books again , I'm not

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going to save you and I'm not going to save

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you, but I'll save you. Cause you're looking

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at me smart . This is my time

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on the stage. Look , Hey, look what I'm doing.

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I'm holding out your belts. I'm holding out your life

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jackets. I'm holding up your life.

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Correct? I think I really do think that there

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are people that when that video

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starts, they deliberately pick

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up a paper or a magazine because they

3:45

it's almost like they're saying to everyone

3:47

around them and the crew. Well,

3:50

you know, I fly it every other day.

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I see this all the time. I know it back

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to front. Yeah. When that

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stuff hits the fan, you probably

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don't because you become complacent

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as a frequent flyer, Brian

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. Yes , that's what I was just

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say, complacency plays a lot into

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this , but you know, really at the end of the day, I like

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him, you know, getting those buckles

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and tighten them up and sort

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of brings in a little bit of life into their whole

4:17

sort of boring situation. But, you know, I

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don't know when I grew up and we were

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in a car, we never had seatbelts. There was no such

4:24

thing. And then when they introduced them

4:26

, um, it took quite a while

4:28

I think for the general public to

4:30

get the juice. And now, you

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know, 30 or so years later, you

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know, it's just normal. You

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just get in a car and your buckle up. And you're

4:39

not saying to anybody generally

4:41

, uh , can you put your seatbelt on? Cause it's just

4:43

an automatic thing, but on an aircraft, I don't

4:45

know what it is. It's like flying. I think,

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I think it's like whenever you go to a , uh

4:50

, an airport, people sort of get

4:52

a little bit foggy in the brain and sort of,

4:54

you know, get distracted. And

4:56

often you're telling people, you're

4:59

actually looking into their lap to be honest

5:01

and saying, you know, can you put up your seatbelt

5:03

or you've got to bend over and you've got to help

5:05

people put them up. Um, it's just really

5:07

for their own safety, you know, you don't want

5:09

it flying out and that's actually what happens.

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I think it's a little bit more simpler than that as

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to why people don't do it. I'm thinking about

5:16

this now. And I hadn't really considered it before.

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Why in a car? We do

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it. Yeah . On a plane. Yeah.

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We'll do it if we get asked to, but otherwise we won't

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bother. It is actually the law

5:27

to Fasten your seatbelt on an aircraft

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before, before takeoff , during takeoff

5:31

and on approach to landing. And that is the law,

5:33

but you see what the airlines don't do. They

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don't enforce that with the passengers if they don't

5:38

do it. So I wouldn't cop a fine

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by not putting it on. I'll just be told to put it on.

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You're not going to find me. Whereas if I get pulled

5:45

over in the car for not wearing a seatbelt , that's

5:47

the reason I'll get pulled over because I'm not

5:49

wearing a seatbelt and I walk up a fine, don't

5:52

do that in the airlines. Just tell people to put it on.

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And you know what, we're 40,000 above

5:58

define gravity. What what's

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going on. I sort of don't understand. I always thought

6:02

to think of myself , um, when

6:05

I'm in an aircraft, you know what,

6:07

it's traffic update . If you actually look

6:10

at radars and everything and see how many planes

6:12

are going, you know, throughout the

6:14

world, it's busy. It's like

6:16

congestion up there. So, you

6:18

know, it's like being on a road, in

6:21

an aircraft, they've got their own little designated

6:23

road and everything, and it's all got their own bumps.

6:26

They've all got their potholes. They do

6:28

do go through turbulence

6:30

and turbulence can be sort of, you know, a little

6:32

bit slight, but you can have some severe

6:35

turbulence. Have you ever been into some severe

6:37

turbulence when you've gone travel ?

6:38

Yeah. It's normally flying over the equator.

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Um , and there's also the route between Sydney and

6:43

Japan. And it's about four hours

6:45

into the flight where the city and you'll know

6:47

this, the seatbelt signs go on and

6:49

the plane is as calm as anything. And the passengers

6:52

sort of look around and go, well, that's obviously

6:54

a mistake, isn't it? Because look how look,

6:57

how calm it is. I'm going to go to the toilet

6:59

right now. It's just , I

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sit there going, yeah, you've

7:04

not studied whether you've probably not flown on

7:06

this route before, but in about five minutes

7:08

from now, I guarantee it, that plane

7:10

is going to be rattling around the sky.

7:12

And you'll wish you weren't sitting on that toilet bowl.

7:16

That's right. You wish wouldn't right.

7:18

Because you know, in the , in that toilet bowl,

7:20

there's movements as well. The

7:24

amount of paper . Yeah. And especially

7:27

ever nighttime . And when they seatbelt sign

7:29

goes on, people, people are asleep

7:31

or they're a little bit dazed and everything and it goes on

7:33

and there's a PA that normally just, you

7:35

know, makes you aware that this that

7:38

they're on. Um, and of course we're going to

7:40

hit turbulence and the amount of people that

7:42

all of a sudden it

7:44

must be breeding into their bladders

7:46

or something. It's like, ding , uh

7:48

, not for the seatbelt. This is for you to go to the toilet

7:51

and they all get up out of their seat. And it's like , no, sorry,

7:53

we're going to hit turbulence or were expecting

7:55

because what they don't know is

7:58

that either the tech crew

8:00

in the, in the cockpit is seeing on their radar,

8:02

that there's a lot of weather around, or

8:04

they're getting communication from aircraft

8:07

before that and saying, listen,

8:09

we've done this. I mean, you know, all that, cause you've been,

8:12

you're a trained pilot in their licensed

8:14

pilot. And um , so you have

8:17

all this under your belt, but they don't understand

8:19

that, but there are serious issues.

8:21

If you get stuck in turbulence, I mean, you

8:23

do can actually fly right

8:25

through that aircraft if you're not

8:27

buckled in

8:28

well, if there's a massive windshear , which is a

8:30

change in wind direction at different levels

8:32

and different as you fly through

8:34

the air, basically the aircraft can drop

8:37

considerably. And when the aircraft

8:39

drops, you're still in the air

8:41

where it was. And what happens to you, you appear

8:43

to go up and wake your head on the scene and it'd

8:45

be quite dangerous actually. And you

8:47

make a good point. Clear air turbulence

8:50

is exactly that the radar does

8:52

not pick it up. You can have an idea

8:54

of where it is , um , based on

8:56

the weather systems, the time of year and

8:59

where the jet streams are, you can predict where

9:01

it should be and to avoid it, but

9:03

sometimes you're going to hit it. And

9:05

when you hit it, it's bang that

9:08

comes up and slaps you in the face. Like you

9:10

just don't expect it to. So when the seatbelt

9:12

signs go on and it's nice and calm probably

9:15

should pay attention, you know, don't make that

9:17

mad rush toilet.

9:19

Yes . I love it. A little bit of turbulence.

9:21

In fact, I like it, even when it gets a little bit medium

9:23

and I'm feel like I'm on a roller coaster and

9:26

that's what it really is. Like you could

9:28

be at the top of the rollercoaster , you've got your seatbelt

9:30

and then boom, that, that

9:32

aircraft is flying down. It

9:34

could jump , I don't know , 10,000

9:37

feet.

9:37

Yeah. Yeah. It's it's pretty quick.

9:40

Yeah, maybe not that week . Yeah. I mean,

9:42

that's, that's, it

9:46

can't drop a fair whack in a couple of seconds

9:49

and uh, yeah , that belt is going to hold you into

9:51

your seat and uh , we won't hold your

9:53

drink though, but who cares about the drink when you've saved

9:55

, uh , a nasty bash on your head, on the overhead

9:58

bins or whatever you call them? Um,

10:00

yeah, exactly. It's an interesting one, but it's, it's

10:02

funny to see the way people behave and um,

10:05

just think that they know it all and, and

10:07

, uh , it is a safety issue. I , I get

10:09

it.

10:09

I love the naughty ones. He think

10:12

that they've got it over their laps

10:14

and they don't even have it up, but you

10:16

know, you get, you get a trained eye, you get a trained

10:18

eye for the mind , nudist things. And it's like, excuse

10:21

me, you seat belts. Um , and done

10:23

. And they're like, no, it's not it's. And then you just grab

10:25

it and you go, mm . Yeah. It's like, oops.

10:28

And they get sprung. I love,

10:30

you know , come on, tell us there's

10:32

some that stick in your memory. I know you're heading there.

10:34

Now tell me, tell the rest of us some

10:36

of these funny observations you've had around

10:38

seatbelts over the years of [inaudible] .

10:40

So this is , um, so this is Europe.

10:42

So in Europe, as you know, it's only

10:45

an hour here or a few hours there to

10:48

, to , um , go places. But

10:50

this actually happened to a really,

10:52

really good friend of mine and

10:54

it was a night flight and she was traveling

10:56

from London to a beef farm.

10:59

So, you know, it's summertime , everyone's

11:01

crazy. You've got two sides of obesity . You've got a really,

11:04

really beautiful side . And then you have

11:06

got their CD. Beautiful. [inaudible]

11:15

sadly, ah

11:17

, let's get out those pump homes and let's send you

11:19

off there , darling. I'll come with you. But

11:21

, um , next year, so, you know, on these

11:23

flights, they get a lot of

11:26

, um, groups of people. So

11:28

you got women going over there for Hans parties

11:30

and you got a whole lot of men going

11:32

over for their, you know, stag party.

11:35

And so they got on

11:37

board , the aircraft, they're having a great time.

11:39

They're having a few drinks. They're all excited.

11:42

They're mates getting 'em , uh,

11:44

getting married in two weeks time. So

11:47

off they go to a beef , right? So

11:49

then after a couple of hours, this , a few

11:51

of them are snored off. And, but

11:53

now it's time that we're landing

11:55

into [inaudible] . And , um

11:58

, they've been directed by the

12:00

captain to go and prepare the cabin. So of

12:02

course, preparing the cabin weight , people

12:04

are plights her arm bags underneath the seats

12:06

and predominantly you're there to check

12:09

seatbelts. So as

12:11

you're , as she was walking through the cabin,

12:14

she's looking onto a left and

12:16

she's looking onto her. Right. And thank goodness, it was

12:18

only, you know, a one hour. So

12:20

she was on a seven, five, seven. So

12:23

it's a little bit more condensed aircraft,

12:25

right? So everyone can hear, see, everybody

12:27

looks at you. So if she goes, she goes

12:30

down and she gets to this group

12:32

of guys anyway. So

12:34

they're having a , you know, I had a good time

12:36

with her and she's had a good time with them and had

12:39

a little bit of fun. And next

12:41

minute, she's checking over and looking

12:43

at their seatbelts when the guy on the window

12:47

grabs his belt, and

12:49

then he looks at her and he goes, Hey,

12:53

Derek . And that this is tied enough to your , I think

12:55

my buckles aren't do you think you want to

12:59

have a girl? And

13:02

she sort of just looked at him and she said,

13:05

I don't think you need an extension seatbelt

13:08

for that one. And with that, she just

13:10

turned around and just kept on going down

13:12

the aisle and just kept on looking from left

13:15

and right. And with these, all these

13:17

mates just absolutely

13:20

went into rochus laughter because

13:23

he just got done. He thought he was being smart

13:25

with her. And she

13:27

just had a little quick one liner about extension

13:29

seatbelts and said, you know, that

13:31

won't need an X ,

13:33

which is a nice little throwback to last week's

13:35

episode where we were talking specifically

13:37

about naughty flight attendants . And then

13:39

I know I exactly,

13:42

and it's always good to have a little bit of banter

13:44

with people and God loving. I don't

13:46

know if he was the one that was getting married,

13:48

but God help the wife. My

13:50

goodness. Yeah. It's a raucous flight that flights

13:53

repeat there . I've done a few of those over the years from London

13:55

and it's , it's, it's sometimes

13:58

it can be worse than being on public transport

14:00

on the ground. Like it's like a school bus.

14:03

I've never seen anything like it. And this, this, this

14:05

will probably shock. You actually see even talking about

14:07

people, fasting seatbelts and kind of pretending

14:09

to false them , but not fastening them. A

14:11

few years ago, I did a Ryan

14:13

air flight out of Stansted to

14:17

EBITA . Uh , it was a Tuesday afternoon. I remember

14:19

it. Well, a couple of my mates were also

14:22

joining me on this flight. And

14:24

of course you it's , that's

14:26

the airline where you just don't choose to sit together,

14:28

right? You can't choose to sit together unless you pay

14:30

double the flight cost . And so it's two and

14:32

a half hours and we're like , I we'll probably swap with a few

14:34

people. That's fine. And so the three of us were

14:36

dotted all over the cabin and

14:38

I sit down and I'm probably in the back section

14:41

of the captain of the cabin, rather

14:43

on the left hand side of the aircraft, the

14:45

aircraft rolls up. The runway takes off

14:47

wheels up seatbelt signs go off,

14:50

but we even need to get to that point

14:52

because as soon as the aircraft was wheels up,

14:55

people were standing up. The

14:57

music came on that honestly

15:00

the ghetto blasters were blaring. The

15:02

obese, the tunes were playing loud. The

15:04

drink, the drink smuggled on in

15:07

luggage was coming out in the water bottles

15:09

that they'd obviously bought air side

15:11

and filled up the water bottles. And I'm

15:14

just looking at this going, yeah

15:16

, I don't feel really safe on this aircraft now.

15:18

So of course you've got the weight and balance issue. Now everyone's

15:21

sort of congregating towards the back of the

15:23

aircraft towards the tail. Now that

15:25

tail could only take so much, you know , pitch

15:27

adjustment before it just stops working like,

15:31

wow, I can't wait to get to

15:33

a beach , but I can't wait to get to a beat at this time for

15:35

a completely different reason because I

15:37

want to be on the ground when he was

15:39

violent. I sell the story many times

15:41

and laugh about it now, but I just was not

15:43

expecting that times have changed. Um

15:46

, he's only a few years ago,

15:49

but I still like it. When you're saying Fasten your

15:51

seatbelt fastened his safety belts

15:54

suddenly like anyway, you're listening to Simon

15:56

and Mayday . Hopefully if the last 15 minutes

15:58

has taught us anything, it's the importance

16:00

to safety. When traveling by plane, it doesn't

16:03

take more than five seconds to buckle up. Of course,

16:05

I think you'd need to think about that. Next time

16:07

you travel coming up, Maydays jumping into a uniform.

16:10

Oh , lovely. I can't wait to ask you all about

16:12

your wardrobe malfunctions during your flying

16:14

career as well. Stay with us. That's up next.

16:18

This is everything aviation and a

16:20

little on the side with Mayday Millie

16:22

and Simon Bennett.

16:23

Good morning Speedbird Concorde AF passing FL288 climbing FL310

16:28

so in the 1930s and forties

16:31

in flight stewardesses wore military

16:34

inspired skirt suits and

16:36

bland colors with white gloves and

16:38

matching hats bit like going to a rave these

16:40

days. For me, he , one of the most

16:43

recognized uniforms throughout

16:45

the aviation history and likely the world

16:47

as far as uniforms are concerned is

16:49

Singapore airlines. The famous

16:52

sarong kumbaya was designed

16:54

by Pierre Balmain in 1968

16:57

and is still worn to this day

17:00

with designers tendering for the chance to

17:02

design airline uniforms. I

17:04

imagine they would most certainly be a

17:06

hit and miss with those having

17:08

to wear them, let alone work

17:10

in them for periods of up to 18,

17:12

19 hours. Mayday, forget

17:14

the history of uniforms. I want to hear some funny stories

17:17

about uniform malfunctions. You know me, before

17:19

we get into that though, can I ask, are

17:22

the uniforms comfortable? Depends

17:25

.

17:26

Depends which ones I've had quite a few

17:28

uniforms and um , some

17:30

of them have like not comfortable

17:33

at all. You can't, how can

17:35

you, how can you help all these people? You know,

17:37

you're, you're designing for thousands of people. We're all at

17:39

different Heights. We're all different weights. We all may wear

17:41

the same size, but you know what? We've

17:43

got bumps and lumps and curves and so forth

17:45

and everything. But , um, do

17:48

you know, I used have a uniform. I loved it. It

17:50

was a hundred percent will , um, was

17:53

probably about 20 years ago. Everyone's

17:55

got their favorite, favorite uniforms.

17:58

Um, but yeah, you know, I don't know. I

18:01

love the look of a uniform. What are you ? You get

18:03

onboard an aircraft. Is that something that you look for?

18:06

Cool. Yeah. I love the uniform . You

18:09

can't image . You love it. When, when there's like

18:12

zippers that have been busted and

18:14

you know, shirts have been torn

18:16

and cause this is what's happened as

18:19

well. I don't mind that either, but

18:22

I feel bad. I feel bad for the people

18:24

wearing them. I'm like, do I do a point out

18:26

or just not say anything? If I pointed out, she's

18:28

going to know I'm looking at where

18:30

the zip is and that's on her back and

18:33

yeah. Or his, but

18:35

you do, you should. I always do, because

18:38

it happened to me once when

18:40

I popped a zipper something and I didn't realize,

18:42

and I'm thinking, Oh, I must've lost a little bit

18:45

of weight because it's feeling a little bit loose and

18:47

everything. And not until I've walked all the way through

18:49

the car park all the way through the terminal,

18:51

you know, it's a busy, busy day and you get

18:53

down to the crew room and then someone

18:55

says you zip has been busted. And

18:59

this is just when you're signing on to embark

19:01

on a trip when you're getting home. And then you get

19:03

in Lucy uniform anyway, replace

19:05

it . Have it repaired. This is at the beginning of a staunch

19:08

trip to the other side of the world.

19:10

You pause that's right . And you're striking your stuff,

19:13

thinking, you know what? I'm looking good.

19:15

I'm feeling good and I'm happy.

19:18

And then I need to be turned at the other end.

19:21

You zippers on done and everything's

19:23

showing, and you're probably wearing your

19:25

, your most comfortable, but

19:27

your most oldest pair of undies

19:30

love always happens. Like you're never ever wearing

19:33

an ice at all. You know, brand new

19:35

$50 pair of Lacy

19:37

undergarments really never wear the comfy

19:39

ones. Yeah. Course it's

19:41

work. It's 16 hours. Except

19:45

the more you ladies spend on underwear, right.

19:47

The less comfortable it is, the comfort

19:49

is indirectly proportional to

19:52

the dollar value of the undies

19:54

. That's right. That's right. So,

19:56

so what I did , um, this

19:58

week and it's, I have absolutely laughed

20:01

this week because I've sort of reached

20:03

out to a couple of friends and said

20:05

to them, Hey, you know, tell

20:07

me a uniform malfunctions

20:09

that you've had. And , and I'm thinking that,

20:11

you know, I was probably one

20:14

of a few that had happened

20:16

to , but then all of a sudden they're coming down with all

20:19

these stories and, and it happens

20:21

to us all. And, and

20:23

some of them were absolutely hilarious.

20:25

I was on the floor. I was Nellie , well myself

20:27

, tell me, tell me, let's get into

20:30

this. What happened to this? What happened

20:32

to 'em what she was

20:34

actually in observer, I must say.

20:36

So this is a friend of mine in the States, right

20:38

? Um, quite a few years ago. And it was when

20:40

, um, that the pilots used

20:42

to come out and they used to have a little chit chat

20:45

toward the passengers and themselves.

20:47

And, you know, passengers love that.

20:50

You know, I just think it's a really, really nice thing.

20:52

So out comes this first officer

20:55

who's , you know, very good looking

20:57

and quite athletic. And then when you've got

20:59

one of those beings in a little,

21:01

you know, airline uniform, it's sort of a

21:03

little bit, you know, puts a little bit of a twinkling.

21:06

You're on a little bit of a smile. Anyway,

21:08

comes out of the cockpit, has

21:11

a little chit chat. He's gone down

21:14

VA craft . He's nearly about three quarters

21:16

down the aircraft. And then

21:18

this little old lady comes from about

21:20

midway and she's walking up to

21:22

the front of the yang craft to

21:24

a friend of mine. And she says,

21:27

Oh, excuse me, dear. But I just want

21:29

to let you know that, that, that pilot,

21:31

if he's very, very good looking

21:33

and you know , um , he sorta got me

21:35

a little bit flustered, but then when I sort of looked

21:38

elsewhere, you know, he had his sipper

21:40

and down and right

21:47

there , the lady, apparently

21:49

she was about, ah , probably about 80,

21:51

83. And um , so

21:53

you could imagine her little cheeky, little smile

21:56

and thinking, Ooh, right. Anyway.

21:58

So the , the mermaid

22:00

at the front sort of turned around and thought, well, I can't

22:02

really actually say anything

22:04

cause he's three quarters of the way down. He's

22:06

already started his own little stuff

22:09

down the aisle. So I'm just

22:11

going to have to wait until he comes back. And next minute

22:13

turns around. And not only did

22:15

he have his Superman on done, but also

22:18

to his white shirt was popping on

22:20

through elephant's

22:23

trunk.

22:24

Ah , yeah. Right? Yeah. He's doing the elephant.

22:27

Well , what is it just got changed in the cockpit turned

22:29

up in his jeans and tee shirts are better put

22:31

a uniform on . Yeah.

22:33

I mean, it's one thing with having a zip on done, right?

22:35

We, that, that happens. And I don't know why

22:37

we all get, sort of get a bit embarrassed

22:40

about it. It's like, Oh my God, he's zippers on done.

22:43

Ooh , should we tell him no, we shouldn't tell him. It's

22:45

like, I don't understand it

22:47

. I've had women that I've

22:49

worked with in their uniform. And

22:51

they've had this same going from the

22:53

top of their shoulder down to

22:56

their waist and the

22:58

uniforms have to be quite

23:00

firm. And this particular

23:03

girl, she was quite busty and

23:05

she was in the middle of a flight. And then next

23:07

minute, the scene just undid

23:11

right. There you go for all to see

23:13

or to see that book . Now that's embarrassing

23:16

because now her chest is

23:18

on show to a whole aircraft.

23:20

Whereas if you've only just got to zip up on your pants,

23:23

that's all, you're , you know, you're not seeing anything,

23:25

it's just a zipper, but he seemed to get really embarrassed,

23:28

their uniforms or spare parts of uniforms

23:30

on the aircraft. Well , when that

23:33

happens, your staff, you've got to find her

23:35

and you can't carry needles on board. So

23:37

you can't,

23:38

well, you can, you can have sewing

23:40

kits and things like that. That's not a problem, but I mean,

23:43

you've got to go, where are you going to , where are you going to it?

23:45

I can't say, can you, so no,

23:48

I'm not a cell . It's 400 pounds . It's not my fault

23:50

. I'm sure you'd be able to find someone with, excuse

23:54

me, two eight, two eight. Can you come down the back?

23:56

We need to . So I thank you very much. Yeah. That

23:59

little old lady who was coming down, you know,

24:01

looking at the wrong areas on,

24:03

you know, colleagues of yours, she'd probably

24:05

be good with a needle and cotton. I

24:07

would imagine. I know who knows.

24:10

So there's lots of , there's lots of sippers , there's lots

24:12

of rips. Um, another one

24:14

was a friend of mine in , in

24:16

Australia and you know, in most uniforms,

24:19

especially women, they have a really good

24:21

range of, of what they can

24:23

, um, wear . So sometimes

24:26

they'll get skirts or dresses

24:28

or pants, vest,

24:31

shirts, the whole thing. And

24:33

um, and when you get a little bit bored,

24:35

you know, you get up to a few little antics

24:38

every now and then say, so my

24:41

mate was right at the front of the galley and

24:43

I'm , this is on a seven 37. So

24:46

you've got about 30 rows on three on each

24:48

side. So about 175 people.

24:51

So, so she's up the front, her

24:53

mate is down in the back. She's obviously

24:55

a little bit bored everyone's looking

24:57

forward so nobody can see her at the bat.

25:00

So she decides to do, she says

25:02

sides , just sort of do a little bit of a dance and

25:05

then just do a bit of a stripper squad

25:07

. Do you know what a stripper squad is? You

25:10

painted the picture, but you're welcome to tell me today

25:13

. Okay. So we all know what a gym squat

25:16

is. Well, a gym squat, you know, you've got your

25:18

weights and you sort of, it's a controlled

25:20

squat. And then you move up in order

25:22

to enhance your muscles, better

25:24

, strip a squat . You

25:26

know, you've got your legs down. And then you're going

25:28

down with full force, which

25:31

is what she did. And with that

25:33

full force, there

25:35

was an almighty rape. This

25:38

rip went from the bottom of

25:40

her zipper, right down

25:42

through the crutch , right up the back

25:44

and to the band of where your belt

25:47

goes. Oh

25:55

my God. And you can imagine a scar

25:57

because the stripper squat is done

25:59

with fours. The rep's not

26:01

quiet. So half the aircraft

26:04

from halfway backwards heard

26:06

this, they've looked around to see

26:08

what's happening. Cause that's what people do. They, we

26:11

all get a little bit nosy, cause there's not much else

26:13

to do except you know, stare at people and see

26:15

what people are up to. And they've looked at

26:17

her and she's still

26:19

squatting and the pants

26:22

has just ripped. So I'm just wondering, and

26:24

I never asked the question, was

26:26

she wearing her old daggy, comfy

26:29

bloomers? Or was she wearing

26:31

her nice little late Lacy number?

26:33

And you would hope it would be the latter on

26:35

that particular day. I'm

26:37

like I painted the picture.

26:40

It's it's wonderful. And I just wanted to before,

26:42

just don't know if I can compose

26:44

myself. Now I'm trying to be the professionals

26:47

areas , broadcaster , you get

26:49

your uniforms. Right. And they would be replaced

26:51

every whatever. However, often it is on rotation

26:53

just to keep them fresh. Looking at

26:55

you allowed to make adjustments to them. Or

26:58

do you have to get the airline to make adjustments on

27:00

your behalf? Or can you take them anywhere and sort of

27:02

get the skirt went up a little bit.

27:04

Yeah. You're not supposed to really get them adjusted,

27:07

but people do to make, to make them feel

27:09

good in their uniform . Sometimes, you know, like

27:11

I said before, just because you

27:14

get a size 10 or 14 or whatever

27:16

it, you know, you and I could be a size

27:18

14, but we're very different shapes. So

27:21

some people go and get them altered themselves.

27:24

You can't get them altered from work to

27:26

make them fit better. But that takes too long and it's

27:28

just effective to go out and either do it yourself.

27:31

But I'm another mate of mine in the States.

27:33

She actually had these pants

27:35

and it was one of her first flight.

27:37

She had, you know, nice little petite

27:40

little number. Um,

27:42

and she thought that she'd just go off and get a nice

27:44

little cutesy, little cuff put at the bottom of her

27:46

pants. Why she

27:48

did that? I have no idea. Why , why

27:52

would you anyway? So off

27:54

she goes, she got caught off reserve

27:56

onto the aircraft . They fly to wherever they've

27:58

gone to. And there

28:00

it is. Door opened , uh,

28:03

the stairs come up to the aircraft. She's

28:05

farewelling everybody see you later. Goodbye.

28:08

She goes to get her bags

28:11

to walk down the stairs, but

28:13

as she's gone to walk down the

28:15

stairs, her heels

28:17

get caught in the cuff that

28:20

she got altered on her pants

28:22

and did the biggest six up all

28:24

the way down the stairs while

28:27

there's a busload of people

28:30

waiting for the crew to board. So

28:32

they can go to the terminal. She

28:34

just flew down those stairs, flew

28:37

down or because she wanted the car .

28:38

It almost is almost

28:41

as, as another one of these, doesn't it? Yeah.

28:45

Pricing, you know, fashion is pricey

28:47

and to look good. It's high maintenance that

28:49

poor girl. She said she was in ice

28:51

for the rest of the trip. But um , you

28:53

know what? She still loved it. Hence why there is

28:56

no more cuffs.

28:57

All thing. I love it. I do love these stories.

29:00

That's it? It's a wrap Mayday. You may now

29:02

change into something a little more comfortable. You've

29:04

been listening to everything, aviation and

29:06

a little on the side with myself, Simon Bennett

29:08

and Mayday Millie . Hey, next week we'll

29:11

be discussing those first day blunders.

29:13

We all know that first day feeling. It goes

29:16

way back to the start of term time during our school

29:18

years. Doesn't it? Nerves are at an all time. High

29:20

excitement makes us even more nervous.

29:23

So how does it all go so very wrong?

29:25

And when it does, where's that huge rock to

29:27

hide under? I asked her and remember

29:29

when we rented on about cabin baggage, I think it was

29:31

episode two. Well, we thought

29:34

it only appropriate that we revisit that

29:36

and take a peek to see what you pack in your

29:38

luggage when you travel. It's no wonder the aircraft

29:40

manufacturers had to start building

29:42

lighter planes. That's all in next week's episode,

29:45

everything aviation and a little on

29:47

the side is hosted by Simon Bennett

29:49

and Mayday Millie produced by HuuChin

29:51

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