February 16th, 2007, 18:19
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|  Re: why does this happen before taxi to takeoff?
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Originally Posted by riot shields  either easyjet or ryanair, one of those 10$ round trip airlines, make you CLOSE the window shades... what is that all about? so that you don’t see parts of the plane falling off during takeoff? i know a lot of airlines make you keep the shades OPEN incase of an emergency during t/o, but why CLOSED ?
weird europeans.
| I would think that on a sunny day the air conditioning packs would have to work extra hard and thus use fuel for running them. |
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