http://teamhouse.tni.net/Misc/noplay/cockpit.htm
One time on the way to New York, we went first class and i got to sit in the cockpit while the other pilot took a crap or something. It was really cool watching him fly the plane and all the buttons. Cool experience, i'll never forget it.
seems like something out of a movie. i got to go in the cockpit once when the plane was flying, cause the team that my dad and i were travelling with chartered a plane and this was when i wanted to be a pilot so they let me stay up there for a couple of minutes and i got chicken fingers which were AWESOME! bed time i have school tomorrow.
I'm pretty tired, so perhaps I missed the subtle joke in this, but there's no way that's what happened. Starting turbine engines is significantly more complicated than pressing "Start Engine", unless you're playing MS FlightSim.
The CVR transcript obviously isn't real. You can't start a jet airliner's engines just by pressing the "start" switch. There is a specific and complicated procedure involved in actually getting the engines to ignite. There is no way someone untrained could accidentally flick the start switch and the engines would suddenly spool up automatically.
I have been flying in cockpits for quite some time when I was young. My dad worked for Lufthansa and did crew planning so he knew most of the senior captains. One time I was flying back from JFK to Frankfurt in a DC10 with my dad's poker buddy on the controls. We were the last plane to take off into a huge thunderstorm that was all around us. Lightning and black clouds. Very scary then but he was cool. Was sitting the entire 7hours behind him on the jump seat. Could have stayed in frist class but when you are 15 the cramped cockpit was the choice.
That is going to cost a few $$ to fix. I had an old airline pilot tell me a story about a gal in the cockpit, that teased the poor guys that manned the DEW line in the 1950's. These guys were the ones that were up in the artic circle manning the scopes. Of course the poor souls were on small detachments, that did'nt have a woman around for miles. And the stewardess ? This was before womans lib.
Am I the only one trying to picture myself snoring on that seat close to the wall and the counter, sleepishly waiting for the flight attendant to call my row ... and then ... the wall rips open with the nose of a frickin plane showing up!!!! Can anyone say "Holy crap!"? LMAO!!!
