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Post by blazerrose on Aug 22, 2014 7:54:03 GMT
To be honest, I was not paying much attention thanks to reading about how my favorite show was going to lose 3/5 of the hosts. I have this set to record again next week.
What I did see was intriguing, and I wonder if any airlines will adopt their technique.
The last two times I flew, I was on United and then on Delta, and they both used the loading group version, but I have no idea how that is all sorted. It seemed rather random.
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Post by OziRiS on Aug 22, 2014 11:19:15 GMT
I wasn't going to watch this one, because it's already been aired back in 2012 in Europe/Australia, so I've already seen it, but after reading about M7 no longer being part of the show I "found" the American version anyway to see the farewell at the end.
I must confess, I'm pretty disappointed that they'd end Kari, Grant and Tory's run by airing a show that's been taped two years ago and just adding that flimsy little farewell clipshow at the end, as opposed to making a new and more spectacular episode to say goodbye.
Not cool.
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Post by WhutScreenName on Aug 22, 2014 13:09:34 GMT
It was new here in the US, so I had never seen it before. All in all the episode was good, and fun. Adam and Jamie did the boarding methods, while the build team did Teeth bullets (and Grant a Bone Bullet). All in all, their conclusions seemed spot on and I had no arguments with their methods.
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Post by the light works on Aug 22, 2014 21:53:03 GMT
I agree on the conclusions and methods - and I am more curious than shocked with the build team's departure. is it the build team getting fired, or is it the build team moving on to better gigs?
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Post by breesfan on Aug 23, 2014 19:45:51 GMT
Thought it was an interesting episode but I thought it was a bit boring. It did make me wonder why airlines do the zones only. They do front to back but it's in Zones. Like if you are in the front row after business class, it's the front, middle then last.
The bite the bullet was interesting but did find it a bit boring.
I'm sad though with the build team and I thought it was a crappy way to say goodbye to them. I haven't been impressed with some of the episodes this season to be honest.
I'm wondering if they got rid of them for financial reasons.
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Post by tom1b on Aug 25, 2014 15:09:30 GMT
What I did see was intriguing, and I wonder if any airlines will adopt their technique. The last two times I flew, I was on United and then on Delta, and they both used the loading group version, but I have no idea how that is all sorted. It seemed rather random. Of course nobody will adopt it. You load by zones to take care of the people paying the most for their tickets first. You take care of the people spending money often on your airline. Then you have to deal with human nature. They didn't even factor in the people that think they are privileged and aren't required to follow the rules. Also, they had no families. Mythbusters used nothing but willing adults. Can you imagine telling a family that they aren't allowed to board at the same time (following the reverse pyramid)? Your seats are side by side, but in different zones. |
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Post by the light works on Aug 25, 2014 15:21:48 GMT
What I did see was intriguing, and I wonder if any airlines will adopt their technique. The last two times I flew, I was on United and then on Delta, and they both used the loading group version, but I have no idea how that is all sorted. It seemed rather random. Of course nobody will adopt it. You load by zones to take care of the people paying the most for their tickets first. You take care of the people spending money often on your airline. Then you have to deal with human nature. They didn't even factor in the people that think they are privileged and aren't required to follow the rules. Also, they had no families. Mythbusters used nothing but willing adults. Can you imagine telling a family that they aren't allowed to board at the same time (following the reverse pyramid)? Your seats are side by side, but in different zones. I had that thought about the more complex zones as well. that could be helped, to a degree, by having the zones assigned by computer models - which would assign blocks of tickets purchased in the same transaction to the same boarding group. of course, all of this requires planning and foresight - which cost more than simply dividing the plane into thirds. |
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Post by Cybermortis on Aug 25, 2014 19:10:55 GMT
Keep in mind that you don't want a complex boarding system, not when you may have a hundred flights everyday, plus people booking at the last moment, switching flights, upgrading or just not turning up. Then you may have people with more specialized needs, such as elderly people who may need some assistance getting to their seats.
A simpler system may be less effective for a single aircraft, but more efficient and flexible when you are doing it so many times a day.
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Post by OziRiS on Aug 25, 2014 19:19:58 GMT
What I did see was intriguing, and I wonder if any airlines will adopt their technique. The last two times I flew, I was on United and then on Delta, and they both used the loading group version, but I have no idea how that is all sorted. It seemed rather random. Of course nobody will adopt it. You load by zones to take care of the people paying the most for their tickets first. You take care of the people spending money often on your airline. Then you have to deal with human nature. They didn't even factor in the people that think they are privileged and aren't required to follow the rules. Also, they had no families. Mythbusters used nothing but willing adults. Can you imagine telling a family that they aren't allowed to board at the same time (following the reverse pyramid)? Your seats are side by side, but in different zones. I was thinking the same thing about families. You'll never get a parent to board without their child, or let their child board before them. Dividing them is not an option most parents would accept. |
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Post by the light works on Aug 25, 2014 22:28:16 GMT
Keep in mind that you don't want a complex boarding system, not when you may have a hundred flights everyday, plus people booking at the last moment, switching flights, upgrading or just not turning up. Then you may have people with more specialized needs, such as elderly people who may need some assistance getting to their seats. A simpler system may be less effective for a single aircraft, but more efficient and flexible when you are doing it so many times a day. well, there's that, too. plus the fact that different classes of aircraft have different configurations, so an equipment change can throw preprinted boarding groups out the window (well, actually can throw seat assignments out the window, too) I'm curious as to what seating at the gate would do to the equation - where you have a computer software that takes the number in the party and sends them to a block of seats.possibly even queuing them as they enter the boarding area. |
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Aug 26, 2014 13:46:56 GMT
Finally got to watch this last night. I was thinking that the WilMA method appeared to be the best, but tom1b had a great point about families. They did not try front-to-back though, which I thought might be worth testing. The most surprising part ware the results from the 'All Board-Unassigned' method. I was expecting total anarchy and chaos, but it was actually pretty relaxed and orderly. The results from tooth/bone bullet testing weren't very suprising. I wasn't expecting the teeth to magically disintegrate after entering the body. And, they could have done a better job of saying farewell to the Build Team, though Adam's statement was quite heartfelt and gracious. Perhaps we will be surprised with a Build Team special at a later date? Future directions of Tori, Kari & Grant? I suppose Grant will return to robotics, perhaps as a propmaker or technician for Jamie at M5? I can see Kari working to encourage girls to see the potential within STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) studies. Whereas, I can picture Tori becoming a either a stuntman or a human crash test dummy...just sayin'  |
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Post by the light works on Aug 26, 2014 13:56:10 GMT
Finally got to watch this last night. I was thinking that the WilMA method appeared to be the best, but tom1b had a great point about families. They did not try front-to-back though, which I thought might be worth testing. The most surprising part ware the results from the 'All Board-Unassigned' method. I was expecting total anarchy and chaos, but it was actually pretty relaxed and orderly. The results from tooth/bone bullet testing weren't very suprising. I wasn't expecting the teeth to magically disintegrate after entering the body. And, they could have done a better job of saying farewell to the Build Team, though Adam's statement was quite heartfelt and gracious. Perhaps we will be surprised with a Build Team special at a later date? Future directions of Tori, Kari & Grant? I suppose Grant will return to robotics, perhaps as a propmaker or technician for Jamie at M5? I can see Kari working to encourage girls to see the potential within STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) studies. Whereas, I can picture Tori becoming a either a stuntman or a human crash test dummy...just sayin' one of the rumors in one of the articles I read on the topic was the speculation that Grant had run R2D2 in the past, and may be running him, again. |
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