Vanishing Cabin Airflow
Airflow will no longer be measure as cubic feet per minute per passenger.
The flying public has realized that increasingly scanty cubic footage of seat space will draw less & less airflow as seat space continues to shrink. Soon, passengers will be breathing dribbles and spurts of low velocity dispersed airflow as the cubic feet per minute per passenger. Volume continues to shrink to virtually no space at all.
Airlines will develop new ventilation requirement standards for decreasing passenger seat spaces. But at the same timeā¦.people are getting larger and need more airflow.
New measurement terms will appear:
- Zone air of distribution
- Primary airflow zone
- Ventilator Zone
These new airflow terms eliminate the current standard of measuring airflow as a volume per minute (cfm) per passenger. This cfm measurement cannot continue because passenger seat space is shrinking and so is airflow. These terms eliminate the actual passenger.
Airlines have realized that the multiple space geometries involved in measuring actual passenger seat space is dwindling. These new terms never acknowledge the actual passenger.