Originally Posted by
HuggyU2
Question...
Your best guess: what percentage of airline pilots wear the shoulder harness the entire flight?
Is it fair to say the shoulder harness is released on climb before 5,000' by most pilots?
And that is put back on descending through FL180 (and usually on NLT 10,000)?
Thanks.
Entire flight?? Maybe some super short flights done at regionals, but that’s probably low single digit % of all flights
5000’? As soon as the gear comes up it’s a race to see who can unclick the shoulder straps first.
on descent usually between FL180 and 10,000ft.