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Is this standard operating procedure or just coincidence?
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On a DC-9/MD-80 variant, the left side door is full sized, where as the right side door, or SERVICE DOOR, as it is called, is half height. Why? Any time you cut a hole in the exterior skin, you weaken that area, and the internal structure needs to be beefed up, which adds weight. So, the service door is smaller, requiring less beefing, thus saving weight.
P. S. left/right is ALWAYS as you are in the aircraft facing forward.
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Thats where the open door isi've walked on many from the left side...Boeing 737 for one.
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So you don't enter on the wrong side of the plane?!im a mechanical engineering student. i want to set my career in aero industry ...?
Standard operating procedure, it means pilots do the same thing when parking up at all airportsWhether using jetways or stairs, I've always entered aircraft from the port side.
if u enter thru the back, they say you're a'se f'cking the plane. so it's better to be on the right SIDE
this is just a convention agreed upon in the airline industry. it allows airports to use one kind of loading ramp for any plane. if there were doors on both sides, the airport would need two types of ramps and they would have more complex airplane traffic patterns near the loading gates.
Not true you always enter on the left. The reason being that the jetways are always on the left and the reason for that is that the captains seat is always on the left.
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It's bad luck to enter on the wrong side.You only enter on the "port side" if your'e entering a flying boat!
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Right side ? If your standing in front of the plane looking backLeft side ? if your standing in back of the plane looking forward
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Every plane i've seen or been on the passengers board from the left ( #1 side). Are you sure about the right side, or are you meaning from the way you see it from inside the terminal?Does anyone know if the show "Airline" on A&E is still on or has it been discontinued?
It depends on the position of the gates. most aircraft have doors on both sides of the body, so depending on the situation either left or right doors can be used.how many international airlines are there?
Passengers and crew board from the port side due to the standard operating procedures. Jetways and, in some airports, airstairs are attached to the port side while the baggage handling and catering are done on the starboard side. In fact, when the 747 first entered service in the early 70s, some airports actually broke with tradition and used jetways on both sides of the aircraft in an attempt to expedite boarding. However, the boarding procedures confounded many passengers, and the jetways attached to the starboard side were removed.You should probably use port and starboard. Left and right are meaningless in this context.
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I have always entered big airliners from the port side.
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most jetways connect to the aircraft on the left side of the plane. this is why you always enter on the left side. and for those planes that stop at spaces that do not have jetways, this is where the door has steps to get down to the tarmac, planes such as Bombardier Q400 and Airports such as SEA-TAC (Seattle-Tacoma International Airport)Is there an airplane with a four bladed propeller?
i think the right is (co-pilot) side is mainly used for utilitys ie fuel forward bay luggage food cleaners/equipment plz dont say why we dont use the door above the wing :)Why can't airplanes land in fog?
You dont, you ALWAYS enter the airplane on the left-hand side. One reason is that airplanes are built that way, the doors on the right are for catering & cleaning crews, additionally, the baggage doors on nearly all airplanes excluding the small regional aircraft are on the right side. Another reason for this is airport uniformity, they wouldn't want to have to have two jet bridges on every gate to accomidate different aircraft. Finally, most procedures begin on the left side of the airplane because that is where the captain sits in the cockpit. When de-icing the process always begins on the pilot's side so that if icing occurs after de-icing, the captain will see it first and make the judgement call. Same is true with boarding, he will see that the jetbridge has been pulled back before he gives to OK to the ground crew to begin pushback.what is the procedure to get commercial pilot licence after 10+2?
its not just right. im used to entering on left. i think both sides have doors. its just what side the airport has the gates come in one.More Questions & Answers ...
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