"My name is Roger Murdock, kid."
"Ever seen a grown man naked?"
I'd like to hope Muhammed wouldn't be allowed to ask if little Clockmed could see the cool inner workings of the airliner.
Any FReeper pilots or airline officials to say whether this is BS?
This was common practice up until maybe 25 or 30 years ago.
I just noticed they mention the kid watching a movie on “his own device,” so this can’t be more than 5 or 10 years old.
Oh wait nevermind
When I went to Europe as an exchange student in the 1970s, I went on a charter flight. The pilots invited each student up to visit the cockpit.
Of course, that situation was probably atypical, since it was a charter plane and the passengers were all between 14 and 18. The crew told us we were great passengers, better behaved than many adult passengers.
The writer got his 15 minutes of fame. This is not true of course.
Yep. Those days of innocence before 9/11.
Parents should choose carefully what their children are exposed to. If a child is so impressed they have to become an airline pilot they are doomed to a life competing with automation and cheap third worlders. Seeing a rap concert backstage might really be the better choice.
Both cockpit visits happened on the ground, engines off, before, or after the (United Air Lines ) flights.
911 showed us what to do when the SHTF in a jetliner.
You all need to chill.
On a 1994 Russian Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Hong Kong, the pilots own kids were allowed to sit at the controls during the flight. They apparently messed with the controls and crashed the airliner, killing all 75 people on board.
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593
“Aeroflot Flight 593 was a Moscow–Hong Kong passenger service operated by Aeroflot – Russian International Airlines, flown with an Airbus A310-300, that crashed into a hillside of the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, on 23 March 1994.[1][2] All 63 passengers and 12 crew members perished in the accident.
No evidence of technical malfunction was found.[3] Cockpit voice and flight data recorders revealed the presence of the pilot’s 12-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son on the flight deck.[4][5][6] One of the children had unknowingly disabled the A310 autopilot’s control of the aircraft’s ailerons while seated at the controls. The aircraft had then rolled into a steep bank and near-vertical dive from which the pilots were unable to regain control.”
“Airplane” immediately came to mind for me too.
That said, when I left Altus AFB for Korea, the local was a twin engine puddle jumper to get me to a real airport. The pilot, knowing I was military, invited me to sit in the copilot seat (short enough hop that it didn't require a copilot). Made for an enjoyable ride vs. sitting in the cramped back area with shoulder against fuselage and knees under chin....
Don’t believe everything your read in a magazine or the Internet.