User:Steavebob101/sandbox

An Airbus A320 has 8 emergency exits. Two doors in the front, Four emergency exit, over the wing, exits in the middle and two more in the back. Normally you would enter through the front left door, depending on the boarding configuration any of the doors can be opened to board the aircraft. The over wing exits are for emergencies only. They are small and you will never catch anyone going through them, unless you happen to be in an evacuation. These over wings exits have a cover on them. They also have instructions on them as well. Opening this cover will cause the "armed" light to illuminate, it also exposes a handle. Unlike some other planes the exit falls out of its place. In a 737 the exit would open outwards. Who ever opens the exit would have to through it out, onto the wing. When opening the exit the emergency evacuation slide would automatically inflate, if it fails to inflate there is a manual inflation handle inside the door hold, which is red. Pulling that would cause the slide to inflate, thats if it didn't when you opened the exit. Unlike other plane evacuation slides that are stored in the door. This is actually stored near the back of the wing. If the slide is deployed, it will pop out of its cover and inflate, leading a safe way out in an emergency.

The doors: During arming, no one has to get on their knees to arm the evacuation slide like the 737. In this type of plane and in modern planes the flight attendant has to move the arming lever from the disarmed configuration to the armed configuration. This will move the slide into the armed position. Doing this basically moves a metal tube into the the aircrafts floor, This metal tube is known as the "girt bar". When the door is "armed", opening the exit will pull the slide outwards put keep the slide attached to the plane, activating the slide. Opening an armed door on the A320 will illuminate a white light which basically is warning you that the door is armed. Pulling the door handle upwards opens the door, this will be clearly marked on the door. If you are ever in a situation where you have to open the door, check outside to see if there is any hazards, If not pull the handle upwards and let go of the door. The door should swing open deploying the slide. If this fails push the door open. If the slide fails to deploy there is a manual inflation handle which is on the floor, on the slide.

The "cabin pressure" light will glow red if the pressure is different from inside the plane to outside the plane. In an evacuation you can ignore this. In general boarding if the light is on inform the pilot. Opening the door may cause oxygen masks to deploy. You physically can not open the door when you are flying. You can pull the handle up but the door will not open. During landing when the pressure evens out, if you have pulled the handle upwards the door will swing open during landing, causing a lot of chaos and causing the slide to inflate. Disarming the door is as simple as arming, just move the lever upwards into the disarmed position.