Thread: Cabin Class?
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Old May 7th 06, 01:17 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Cabin Class?

see
http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Enteri...craft&id=33419
"A corporate flight attendant is typically utilized on a
"cabin class" aircraft. They are larger aircraft with
usually 19 or less seats, where you can easily get up and
walk around the cabin. Compared with a Westwind, Lear, or
Cessna, the larger jets have an aisle to walk up and down
upon and the headroom usually is adequate to allow easy
passage of anyone under 6' tall." end of quote from linked
article.

The Beech 1900 was stretched vertically to make the 1900D
with a taller cabin than the 1900/and other King Airs, so it
has stand-up room. You have to stoop in a King Air and a
Lear 35, Beech Duke, all the 400 series Cessna's require a
deep stoop or almost hands and knees.

A Duke, for instance is a wonderful airplane once you are
seated, same for a 421C, same for a lot of airplanes that
are called "cabin class" by a sales department that is
trying to sell a charter.

When Bill Lear introduced the Lear 20 series, people
complained about the small cabin and his answer was he'd
rather sit in a small cabin for 1 hour than have walking
around room for 3 hours [something like that].


"John Gaquin" wrote in message
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| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in message
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| If you can stand up, it is cabin class. Club seating
does
| not make "cabin class."
|
| I never heard that stand-up headroom was a requirment to
be termed cabin
| class. I've flown several airplanes over the years, such
as 400 series
| Cessnas and some small-med turboprops, configured for both
airline and
| charter/corporate use, all of which were termed cabin
class by ops, mx, and
| the Fed, but none of which offered stand-up headroom.
There are numerous
| exec jets that don't offer stand-up headroom. I don't
pretend to know the
| exact specs, if any exist, but I don't think stand up is
one of them.
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