Coming cold to this film, it's not at all clear for whom it was intended. The end title reveals that it was sponsored by the Air Ministry's Directorate of Accident Prevention. It was made to remind daredevil fighter pilots during World War II that they must use more care and attention during peace time. In her film debut Patricia Cutts climbs down from a safety poster and gives advice to a pilot and his navigator. The film has only become available to the public in recent years and it's quite a privilege to see it. The insight into commercial air travel in 1946 is fascinating. The plane (an Avro York) mainly carries military personnel, but there are two civilians. The flight consists of several short hops to India. At one stopover the flight crew gets tanked up in a bar and considers going on to a nightclub. At another there appear to be no facilities whatever apart from a tent. (There were still tents at London Airport at this time). According to the Imperial War Museum site the destination may be Karachi. I was left with the feeling that, if pilots really were behaving so recklessly in 1946, commercial passengers were extremely brave to fly with them. Technical credits are quite high for this type of information film and the so-called "trick" effects (Cutts keeps materialising in the cockpit) are smoothly done. Well worth catching.
