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That is a great idea. Would be fun to play on for the kids too.

Lets not teach kids to open plane doors for fun.

No, this is backwards. Fun is trying new things (I think it's evolutionary mechanism that ensure kids are learning by default), and once the thing has been tried, it's not new anymore, so won't be tried again. Best thing we can actually do is to channel that, as OP proposed.

If only we had cheap, multi-use inflatable exit ramps that deflate, fold and stow themselves after use. Which is not a thing, apparently.

>and once the thing has been tried, it's not new anymore, so won't be tried again

There must be something in the water here, because kids here do it over and over again, usually ending up they getting hurt/nearly hurt or told to stop.

Yeah, no, that's not how it works. Need to do it many times before something is not fun. Just look at computer games.

Well, the way my parents discouraged me from smoking was, they brought a pack of cigarettes home and let me have one. Was awful, never wanted to try it again. That was an important life lesson for me.

This is how so many fires start. Kids are stupid (it's biological, brain hasn't developed, they can't help it). Fire is exciting. Then they go experiment with fire in a place you really shouldnt -> whoops, something burns down because they don't know how aggressive a fire is in real life and how hard it is to put out.

But if you give them the boyscout/camping treatment of having them light a fire so many times it becomes boring, let them play with matches, move burning logs with thick gloves and practice putting out controlled campfires safely it becomes boring, normal, and the excitement goes away.

You can't open the emergency doors while the cabin pressure is higher than outside pressure, if that's what you're worried about. And I think they don't let kids sit at the emergency exit either, because the person sitting there needs to be physically capable to remove the door, which has some weight to it.

I just dont want my kids to think its ok to play with the doors on a plane.

I don’t think anyone wants to send that message.

I guess the point is to teach how to use these mechanisms - so that there is no confusion in case an actual emergency happens.

Then don’t let them. Take responsibility for your children :)

But what if it improves everyone’s safety?

Opening doors isn’t fun. School busses would be un workable with that back door if it was.

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