"Morgans" wrote in message
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A better way of doing that is prefaceing it. Say something like, "you
know
when you fly on the airlines, they have to give you a safety briefing, but
you never need it? Well, us small planes have to do it, too. So here
goes......"

I guess to each his own. It's my opinion that the "but you never need it"
just encourages the audience to fail to pay attention. Granted, when it's
one-on-one, or one-on-three, you have a better chance of making sure
everyone's awake, but I wouldn't want to mislead a passenger into thinking
that the information I'm providing in the preflight briefing isn't actually
important.

I *do* emphasize that all of the emergency procedures are there for the
HIGHLY UNLIKELY event that we would need them. But I make sure all of my
passengers have at least a passing familiarity with the kinds of things that
are known to go wrong with airplanes, and reassure them that I have been
trained to deal with such emergencies (as opposed to the average motorist,
who has NO idea how to keep control of the car should anything unusual
happen).

I think it's unfair to a passenger imply to them that there's nothing that
can go wrong. Even if you are dealing with someone nervous about flying,
telling them that there's no risk is just plain lying and in the long run, I
don't think it's the right choice.

Pete