Airplane Emergency Exit Row Volunteer

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If you're pre-approved with WHOmentors.com, Inc. as a volunteer and you're selected by an airline to be seated in an emergency exit row, you can qualify your air travel as an unreimbursed expense:

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https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/tips-for-taxpayers-who-travel-for-charity-work

Emergency Exit Row Volunteers perform the following functions:

• Locate the emergency exit
• Recognize the emergency exit opening mechanism
• Comprehend the instructions for operating the emergency exit
• Operate the emergency exit
• Assess whether opening the emergency exit will increase the hazards to which passengers may be exposed
• Follow oral directions and hand signals given by a crewmember
• Stow and secure the emergency exit window so that it will not impede use of the exit
• Pass expeditiously through the emergency exit
• Assess, select, and follow a safe path away from the emergency exit

In addition, to comply with federal regulations a Volunteer seated in an exit seat must have sufficient mobility, strength or dexterity in both arms, hands, and both legs to:

• Reach upward, sideways, and downward to the location of the emergency exit
• Grasp and push, pull, turn, or otherwise manipulate mechanisms
• Push, shove, pull, or otherwise open the emergency exit
• Lift out, hold, deposit on nearby seats, or maneuver over the seatbacks to the next row or out the opening objects the size and weight of over-wing window exit doors
• Remove obstructions similar in size and weight to overwing exit windows
• Reach the emergency exit expeditiously
• Maintain balance while removing obstructions
• Exit expeditiously

A Volunteer seated in an exit seat must:

• Be 15 years of age or older
• Have the capacity to perform the applicable functions without the assistance of an adult companion, parent, or other relative
• Have the ability to read and understand instructions related to emergency evacuation provided by Southwest in printed or graphic form
• Have the ability to understand oral crew commands
• Have sufficient visual capacity to perform applicable functions without the assistance of visual aids beyond contact lenses or eyeglasses
• Have sufficient aural capacity to hear and understand instructions shouted by Flight Attendants without assistance beyond a hearing aid
• Have the ability to adequately impart information orally in English to other passengers

A Volunteer seated in an exit seat must not:

• Have preboarded
• Use a portable oxygen concentrator
• Require a seat belt extension to fasten his or her seat belt
• Have a condition or responsibilities, such as caring for small children or pets, that might prevent them from performing the applicable functions
• Have a condition that might cause the person harm if he or she performs one or more of the applicable functions