Simviation Forum - Ever been in a real cockpit?

Reply #30 - Jan 15^th, 2007 at 10:35am

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FridayChild wrote on Jan 15^th, 2007 at 2:56am:

The avatar is too dark, I can't really tell Tongue

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Reply #31 - Jan 15^th, 2007 at 11:43am

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Been in loads of cockpits of big jets. I was lucky that I did a lot of travelling as a wee lad during the boom times of the 70s and 80s and it was the norm for little boys to be allowed into the cockpit for a nose around Cool

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Reply #32 - Jan 15^th, 2007 at 11:54am

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I've been in a few, but most notably an Avro Vulcan, a Canberra B.2 (mod) and a Super Guppy 201 - of which I also went in the cargo hold, which is big enough to live in.

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Reply #33 - Jan 15^th, 2007 at 8:47pm

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Do you think Alitalia will be nice enough to let someone into the Flight Deck Huh

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Reply #34 - Jan 15^th, 2007 at 8:57pm

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NDSP wrote on Jan 15^th, 2007 at 8:47pm:

Do you think Alitalia will be nice enough to let someone into the Flight Deck Huh

Tell them you have less than a year to live and always wanted to be an airline pilot. Wink

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Reply #35 - Jan 15^th, 2007 at 8:59pm

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I've sat in a Shackelton cockpit. Admittedly it's not attached to the aeroplane and is in a shed at Flambards, but it has to count for something. Right? Cheesy

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Reply #36 - Jan 15^th, 2007 at 11:41pm

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I believe it was a couple of midwest pilots in a DC-9 who started me on my path to becoming a pilot, back in 1998ish when I was flying to Milwaukee alone to see my grandparents. They invited me into the cockpit when we were deplaning. I got a pair of wings and was eventually pried out, but I never really left.

Since then, with my dad's new job, I've been fortunate enough to ride F/O seat in a Hawker and jumpseat in a G4. Just over christmas break I flew myself and my father up to Trenton-Mercer (TTN) in a put-put 172 and we got the grand tour of the corporate hangar-two G4s, a G5, the Hawker (in the last throes of its service days), and an awesome Eurocopter Dauphin. I asked the extremely nice and friendly pilot showing us around a very important question that had been lingering in my head-"Do you ever learn how to gracefully get in and out of the cockpit?" (I'm not so graceful getting into the 172, and I basically tumble out of it).

Apparently, when the seats slide back in a spacey cockpit, the answer is yes Grin

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Reply #37 - Jan 16^th, 2007 at 12:35am

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I've never flown commercial before I enlisted, but when I was flying to Basic Training, the flight attendant let me visit the cockpit after we had landed. I visited with the captain for a little while while there. The next time, and the last time, I was flying in a 747 over Europe. I must have spent over half an hour visiting with the crew. Of course, I was in uniform, it was a military charter flight, and our destination was Kuwait Wink

As for other cool cockpits that i've sat in, lets see....

B17, DC-3, B-52, C-130, C-5, F-18, SR-71 (It was only the front end of the aircraft, but still...), a vintage C-170, UH-60 Blackhawk, ect

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Reply #38 - Jan 16^th, 2007 at 7:46am

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beaky wrote on Jan 15^th, 2007 at 8:57pm:

NDSP wrote on Jan 15^th, 2007 at 8:47pm:

Do you think Alitalia will be nice enough to let someone into the Flight Deck Huh

Tell them you have less than a year to live and always wanted to be an airline pilot. Wink

That just might work lol Cool

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Reply #39 - Jan 16^th, 2007 at 8:10pm

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Charlie wrote on Jan 14^th, 2007 at 8:27pm:

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the final one wasn't so much in the cockpit but the crew of an Irish Air Corps PC9 allowed me to climb up the wing and take a shot of the inside of the cockpit itself.

Nice, isn't it! Bleedin' gorgeous! Grin

Sure is (sorry about stupid text but I've had to lift it straight off my site)! Grin

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Reply #40 - Jan 17^th, 2007 at 12:38am

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I held the left seat of a C-5 for several minutes back in 1977 or 1978 when there was an airshow at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, AZ. I have a slide of me with my hands on the yoke. The captain took it for me. There was an F-15 there, too, but no one was allowed in and the pilot said I couldn't take any pictures of the instrument panel. Bummer...

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Reply #41 - Jan 17^th, 2007 at 8:59am

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flyboy 28 wrote on Jan 15^th, 2007 at 9:51am:

Several 'pits, actually..

and most recently, a B738 at KSAN after my flight from EWR

..don't ask about the hat.. the captain was.... well.... persistant that I wear it. Roll Eyes

(Taken at KSAN)

Just teasing... I'd like to do that myself, hat and all (if required), but at my age I'd feel like a complete moron asking...

and you flew in a Colt? Now I'm really envious; I love those things.

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Reply #42 - Jan 17^th, 2007 at 10:46am

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Well being in the Navy and working in aviation I've not only had the opportunity to only sit in the cockpit of todays most advanced warplanes...but work in them too. Grin

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Reply #43 - Jan 17^th, 2007 at 12:01pm

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Charlie wrote on Jan 14^th, 2007 at 8:27pm:

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the final one wasn't so much in the cockpit but the crew of an Irish Air Corps PC9 allowed me to climb up the wing and take a shot of the inside of the cockpit itself.

Nice, isn't it! Bleedin' gorgeous! Grin

Sure is (sorry about stupid text but I've had to lift it straight off my site)! Grin

Shame about the green though...

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Reply #44 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 11:17pm

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my dad was in the raaf so we got to fly around for free and on my first ever flight which was in a C-130 i was invited up into the cockpit that was an amazing experience, i have also been in an f-111 cockpit a bell 206 kiowa, blackhawk, chinook and the most recent a cessna 150

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