Thursday, June 4, 2020

Aviation Fact-1: Pilots eat different meals!

Believe it or not, the in-flight meals served to both the captain and co-pilot are different.
As strange as it sounds, this is done so as to prevent a situation where-in both the captain and co-pilot becomes sick possibly due to food poisoning.

With serving two different meals, there is an assurity that in case one of the meals cause food poisoning, the other pilot is safe and is able to fly the aircraft.

There is a possibility that either both pilots will receive altogether a different meal from the rest of passengers, or based on hierarchy. This means the captain will be served with first-class meal and the co-pilot will be served with business-class meal.

Nevertheless, this is not an incongruous step reason being, it assures safety of the passengers because if a situation arises where both pilots become sick then consequences can be catastrophic.

What are your thoughts about pilots have different meals?

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