Originally Posted by
ABK MAN
Castaway was on the tube this weekend, I am asking about FX's crew rest areas. I've been on many of the purple MD-11s, I have seen the "slide a bunk bed out" if you will, but nothing like what is depicted in the movie. How effective are these "bunk beds" in tryin to catch some Zs? I have seen a jumper on a bus one night, with a mat of sorts, pleanty of room to lay down in the floor and sleep away. Seems like a good idea. . .
Shhhhh . . . sometimes Hollywood takes liberties with the truth . . . shhhhh . . . it's a secret.
The "Captain in a Box" crew rest facility is adequate. It is cramped, but there's a horizontal space with a "bunkbed" of sorts, each with a padded mattress, reasonable darkness, and ventilation. All the creature comforts. I never had a problem sleeping in it -- some people do.
It gets interesting when there are two people in it.
As for sleeping on the floor . . . I've done that, too. MD-11s without the CRF have a tri-fold mattress, or fouton that stores behind the seats in the cabin. It's better if you have a sleeping bag or something similar. One concern about sleeping on the floor is dry ice on board. It sublimates, and it . . . goes to the floor. It's an asphyxiation hazard.
(Engines don't run after they've been submerged in the ocean, either.)
(OH, and the biggest error in the movie: Jumpseaters never know how to don oxygen masks.
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