Crew Rest . . .
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Crew Rest . . .
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. . .
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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. . .
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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Thanks! btw, do you know where they filmed the plane scenes in that how movie??? I'd guess in a sim somewhere, did look like an -11 cockpit though. . .
The ramp scene with him leaving doesn't look like MEM at all. . .
The ramp scene with him leaving doesn't look like MEM at all. . .
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How about the lack of a smoke barrier net in the Airbus coming back from Europe, or how the jumpers got onto a people mover, a device that we use to move the load team around the ramp! They, like the pilots would be on the nice, big, climate controlled bus. There was the one time we had a FE ride on our mover after we got tail swapped from like 823 to 353, cool guy
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I've been told that the cameo where Fred appeared required numerous takes. In the line where he refers to pilots as "sons," he kept saying "sons of ____."
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Scenes were shot in an MD-11 sim in MEM and inserted into bigger views of a fake courier compartment.
Some shots were also made in an MD-11 in hangar 10.
The pilot lounge is the FDX corporate hangar lounge in MEM. All the stuff inside was moved from the AOC.
Some shots were also made in an MD-11 in hangar 10.
The pilot lounge is the FDX corporate hangar lounge in MEM. All the stuff inside was moved from the AOC.
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