Airplane toilets

OK, this is a bit of an icky one. If you must pee on the seat, can you at least wipe it up afterwards? Not just because it’s the right thing to do, but also shows respect for other people. Also, if the sign on the door says engaged, pulling the handle will not get you in. But keep trying – it gives me more time to pee on the seat.

Actually this is not limited to airplane toilets. I’d like to think you are big enough to clean up after yourself.

VCRs on Planes - Why?

You can spent millions of dollars on a Boeing airplane, but they can’t fit a decent VCR? It seems planes worldwide use a tape based system for their playback. This means lines, distorted pictures and general crap quality.

In this day and age of ipods and media servers why is it still so? I can understand not having optical drives, like DVD or CD, as turbulence would course a heap of issues, but surely flash memory has reached a point where it is possible to store content at minimal cost.

Imagine the benefits for the airlines. Pull up to the gate and then using a Wi-Fi connection they simply upload the latest news or media content to the plane.

Maybe it’s a copyright issue and they think if they make the quality crap then the staff won’t steal the tapes. With a solid state solution you could get around this by having no tapes. It would be the ultimate closed loop solution.