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Automotive and Aviation Seat Belts?

How are auto seatbelts differ from aviation seatbelts?


    

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A car seat belt is designed to minimise injury when the car is in a full head-on crash. If you have a full head-on crash in an aircraft . . .

An aircraft seat belt is designed to minimise injury during severe turbulance (be it turbulance caused by a natural atmospheric phenomena, by aircraft performance or relatively low stability during take-off and landing).

Hence the requirement is to wear a car seat belt whenever the car is in motion. But airliners are fitted with "fasten seat belt" signs as it is not required to wear them at all times that the aircraft is in motion.

Clearly if fitting lap belts instead of inertia chest belts is a cost saving exercise designed to save installation costs and weight then the airlines are missing a lot of opportunities. Why go to the bother and cost of fitting the seat-belt signs when they could save that cost and weight simply with a safety instruction card that told the passengers to keep belted up at all times?

Other possible cost savings they could consider would the cost and weight saving of getting rid of WCs and galleys. If passengers had to remain belted-up at all times when the aircraft was in motion they clearly could not use the WCs and serving food and drink during a flight would cause passengers significant problems. So would we need FAs? Or is their safety unimportant? After all if they and the passengers had to remain belted-up throughout the flight what would they do?

Yes. It is all prertty ridiculous. But think about it. Is it any less ridiculous than suggesting airlines are putting cost savings before passenger safety by using lap belts and not inertia reel chest belts?

And a final thought. You are in an airliner and wearing an inertia reel, car-type, crash (not safety) belt. The aircraft is in trouble and is going to crash land. So what do you have to do? First you release the seat belt catch. Only then can you adopt the position recommended by all airlines' safety cards in the event of a crash. So your inertia reel belt would actually be a safety hazzard as on impact you will now be thrown about the cabin.

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/4219162/


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auto seat belts have pretensioners while airplane ones do not





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