In the latest of its aircraft, Airbus has installed numerous technological innovations expected to reduce the inconvenience caused by jet lag on intercontinental flights.
At a time when we cross the planet faster than the sun, limit the effects of jet lag is a priority issue for frequent travelers. Airbus is well aware, and insists that its A350, in addition to being fuel efficient, offering innovative and convincing solutions in this regard. Systems that improve the quality of sleep or artfully deceived your internal clock to erase fatigue, that list Quartz this December 28th.
First, the light system on board the long haul, developed by Airbus, responds precisely to this objective. This is LED bulbs can override system sleep / wake up the body of individuals recreating the light of the sunset and sunrise at the right time. Objective: To encourage your body to produce more or less melatonin, the hormone that ease sleep. Frequent travelers know them well and never take a long haul without carrying with them some synthetic melatonin pills.
In the A350, so they have a natural supply that allows them to more easily synchronize the local time of the city where they arrive. The LED bulbs can reproduce up to 16.7 million different color combinations, says an official quoted by Airbus Quartz. This also allows adapting the brightness to the various services on board.
A less pressurized air so less dry
Other Airbus innovation: any depressurization of the cabin, which makes the air less dry edge. Research show that the different pressure in an airplane, and the lack of humidity that results, adversely influence passengers sleep. But the A350 is constructed from 53% -of carbon fiber materials composites- which gives it a lot more light than other cameras. First advantage: it consumes less fuel, hence the interest shown by many companies, starting with Qatar Airways, the biggest owner of A350. But there is also an advantage for the traveler: this allows less pressurize the air, so to make it less dry.
Last way to make the crossing several time less exhausting hours, the air filtration system renews the one found in the cabin of the A350 every three minutes. Which improves its quality, and thus can help to sleep better. In practice this does not prevent your body from feeling the jetlag, but it allows to arrive more rested. Much like the design of the wings supposed to reduce engine noise inside the device.
Airbus remains does not specify whether it measures the actual effectiveness of these systems, nor how it proceeds. When asked by the author of the article about the aircraft manufacturer did not respond. In addition, its US rival Boeing has also set up an innovative LED lighting system in its Dreamliner 787 The lighting can simulate a full day, showed CNN at the time of its first flight in 2011. A light that changes from white to lavender, a warm orange. But on his site, Boeing evokes, he no particular effect on the body.
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