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]]> By: Alex Hall http://www.edventure.com/flightschool/blog/?p=6#comment-3 Alex Hall Tue, 22 May 2007 03:44:01 +0000 http://www.edventure.com/flightschool/blog/?p=6#comment-3 This is so obvious, and yet I haven't seen it stated as well anywhere else! I often wonder what I agree to when I quickly click 'accept' on the small print pop ups that appear. I like the idea of a dialog with the potential customer, although having said that, I don't want it to take so long that I've lost their initial enthusiasm to pony up a few dollars by the time they've crawled through everything! Clearly an interesting balancing act. I have been pondering on the 'ticketing blurb' that we at Airship Ventures will have to put as the terms and conditions for selling tickets on the airship. I suspect that it will be a factor as we negotiate the various liability insurances we need for giving rides on this incredible machine. While we don't have failure modes that could be fatal, airships are susceptible to inclement weather which means rescheduling a flight and I'm sure that will upset people. In addition, you could clearly stumble during turbulence if you were up and about, or even trip getting into the gondola (we won't let you hold a hot coffee while you try to do that). The real chestnut for us is the 'payload' challenge which falls very much into the realm of personal data. While I need to know roughly what weight bracket any given passenger falls in to for their comfort and the safety of everyone on the airship, I'm still grappling for a way to obtain such information without incurring the wrath (lawsuit) of the size acceptance folks and I'm going to need to find some language that allows me to deal with the situation of having to pull someone from a flight because they are the size of two-plus individuals and reschedule them on a flight with perhaps a couple of kids. Its at times like this that I wish general science literacy was a bit higher so that people don't take the limitations of basic physics personally! Alex Hall CEO Airship Ventures This is so obvious, and yet I haven’t seen it stated as well anywhere else! I often wonder what I agree to when I quickly click ‘accept’ on the small print pop ups that appear. I like the idea of a dialog with the potential customer, although having said that, I don’t want it to take so long that I’ve lost their initial enthusiasm to pony up a few dollars by the time they’ve crawled through everything! Clearly an interesting balancing act.

I have been pondering on the ‘ticketing blurb’ that we at Airship Ventures will have to put as the terms and conditions for selling tickets on the airship. I suspect that it will be a factor as we negotiate the various liability insurances we need for giving rides on this incredible machine. While we don’t have failure modes that could be fatal, airships are susceptible to inclement weather which means rescheduling a flight and I’m sure that will upset people. In addition, you could clearly stumble during turbulence if you were up and about, or even trip getting into the gondola (we won’t let you hold a hot coffee while you try to do that).

The real chestnut for us is the ‘payload’ challenge which falls very much into the realm of personal data. While I need to know roughly what weight bracket any given passenger falls in to for their comfort and the safety of everyone on the airship, I’m still grappling for a way to obtain such information without incurring the wrath (lawsuit) of the size acceptance folks and I’m going to need to find some language that allows me to deal with the situation of having to pull someone from a flight because they are the size of two-plus individuals and reschedule them on a flight with perhaps a couple of kids. Its at times like this that I wish general science literacy was a bit higher so that people don’t take the limitations of basic physics personally!

Alex Hall
CEO Airship Ventures

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