Recline in Your Airline Seat – WWGRMD

In reply to ProDarwin :

Now all you need is a club to achieve a trifecta of despised vocations.

It's easy for me. I fly Spirit. The seats don't recline.

Based on the headline, wouldn't GRM just recline the seat in their home built experimental plane? .

But yeah, reclining seats in sardine class is a PITA.

nderwater said:

ProDarwin said:

I design airline seats

Blaming the seat designer is like blaming the shock absorber designer because your car rides so rough.... after you lowered it to the suspension stops....

chaparral said:

It's easy for me. I fly Spirit. The seats don't recline.

Why would you intentionally do that to yourself?

I say recline. My knees hit the seat in front of me on practically every plane I fly. I understand it's just how cattle cars..err. planes are designed these days. No need to be a baby about it. Travel sucks unless you're willing/able to pay more for comfort. I don't exactly see how this is hard to understand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGKR1Z1lRik

Possibly NSFW but air travel always makes me think of South Park.

iansane said:

chaparral said:

It's easy for me. I fly Spirit. The seats don't recline.

Why would you intentionally do that to yourself?

 

I say recline. My knees hit the seat in front of me on practically every plane I fly. I understand it's just how cattle cars..err. planes are designed these days. No need to be a baby about it. Travel sucks unless you're willing/able to pay more for comfort. I don't exactly see how this is hard to understand.

Because crying about minor inconveniences are the only thing we have left in the US, because everything else is pretty good on the whole.

z31maniac said:

iansane said:

chaparral said:

It's easy for me. I fly Spirit. The seats don't recline.

Why would you intentionally do that to yourself?

 

I say recline. My knees hit the seat in front of me on practically every plane I fly. I understand it's just how cattle cars..err. planes are designed these days. No need to be a baby about it. Travel sucks unless you're willing/able to pay more for comfort. I don't exactly see how this is hard to understand.

Because crying about minor inconveniences are the only thing we have left in the US, because everything else is pretty good on the whole.

My only regret is that I have but one thumbs-up to give.

iansane said:

chaparral said:

It's easy for me. I fly Spirit. The seats don't recline.

Why would you intentionally do that to yourself?

 

I'd rather let Mike Tyson punch me square in the plums than ever fly with Spirit again. 

DirtyBird222 said:

iansane said:

chaparral said:

It's easy for me. I fly Spirit. The seats don't recline.

Why would you intentionally do that to yourself?

 

I'd rather let Mike Tyson punch me square in the plums than ever fly with Spirit again. 

You Sir win 1 internets.

I typically don't recline my seat as I don't want to be an annoyance to the person behind. I usually don't have an issue with someone reclining their seat, as long as it isnt as soon as the wheels come up and the person doesnt use all 300 pounds of their body weight to slam it backwards towards me. I sometimes use the seatback ahead as a place to rest my head, so when that person does that, my neck turns to Top Ramen crunched noodles.

ProDarwin said:

I design airline seats

I recline every time

 

Recline does impact knee-room, but that will vary from seat to seat based on the back-pivot location.

I hate you.  There is no place on Earth that fits me worse than an airplane seat.

In reply to iansane :

Spirit cram the most passengers possible into the newest and most efficient planes, so they burn considerably (1/3) less fuel than any of the legacy airlines. Operationally they're pretty poor but if you're on a full direct flight they have a good reason not to cancel it and only get one chance to screw up. It saves me a lot of money and I get to fly on an airline that has never crashed a plane.

6' tall and broad shoulders.

I don't worry about the recline much but I always take an aisle seat so I can lean a bit to get myself off of the person in the middle. I need to stretch my legs too.

I don't know what airlines think an average person is built like but they're WAY off.

chaparral said:

In reply to iansane :

Spirit cram the most passengers possible into the newest and most efficient planes, so they burn considerably (1/3) less fuel than any of the legacy airlines. Operationally they're pretty poor but if you're on a full direct flight they have a good reason not to cancel it and only get one chance to screw up. It saves me a lot of money and I get to fly on an airline that has never crashed a plane.

And yet, last I read, they have mechanical problems and failures at a much higher rate than other airlines.  Somethings not right.

ShawnG said:

6' tall and broad shoulders.

I don't worry about the recline much but I always take an aisle seat so I can lean a bit to get myself off of the person in the middle. I need to stretch my legs too.

I don't know what airlines think an average person is built like but they're WAY off.

I think the same thing everytime I look at the weight/person capacity rating in an elevator. It's like, "Guess you haven't been in America in, say, 40 years?"

Man I'm glad I don't have to fly for work. 

Streetwiseguy said:

ProDarwin said:

I design airline seats

I recline every time

 

Recline does impact knee-room, but that will vary from seat to seat based on the back-pivot location.

I hate you.  There is no place on Earth that fits me worse than an airplane seat.

You say that, but when I say "airline seats" I mean tight-pitch economy seats all the way up to private first class suites which have ample room for all sorts of 'activities' ;)

In reply to ProDarwin :

It's the head support thing that hits me in the shoulders, combined with the total lack of lumbar support that gets me.

I'm just too tall from hips to shoulders. I don't fit into a super late either. Didn't keep me from racing one, but I woulda shaved down the top of my helmet if I got upside down.