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Reply #45 - Jan 19th, 2007 at 6:11am

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the best way to get into a cockpit is when everyone is getting off and to have a little kid with you.

most times if you ask "my kid wants to take a look up front" (even though it is really you who wants to go up front) everyone tries to be very accommodating - as long as the aircraft is on the ground Smiley

When a grown person wants to visit the cockpit it is usually greeted with the idea of "Hmmmm wonder why?"  Huh

so the strategy is - have a little kid with you, and go for it after the flight is over
 
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Reply #46 - Jan 19th, 2007 at 2:14pm
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I got in the pilot seat of a Concorde cockpit thanks to my grandad while at 60000 FT while going Mach 2. Bearing in mind that was in 1998.
 
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Reply #47 - Jan 19th, 2007 at 5:56pm

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Quite a while ago now but I have been in a Qantas 747 Cockpit, I was quite young though.
 
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Reply #48 - Jan 19th, 2007 at 8:09pm

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I got in the pilot seat of a Concorde cockpit thanks to my grandad while at 60000 FT while going Mach 2. Bearing in mind that was in 1998.

Isn't that totally illegal, terrorism aside?
Were you perhaps in the jump seat, or the engineer's seat?
 
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Reply #49 - Jan 20th, 2007 at 7:16am

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beaky wrote on Jan 19th, 2007 at 8:09pm:
Isn't that totally illegal, terrorism aside?
Were you perhaps in the jump seat, or the engineer's seat?


Probably, but the younger members of the forum probably haven't discovered about "dropping someone in it" just yet. Thankfully the details are so sketchy as not to identify anyone! Wink
 
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Reply #50 - Jan 24th, 2007 at 4:25pm

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when i was a little kid i got to see the cockpit once and a stewardess asked us cause my little bro was screaming his head of at the time (he was 2). i dont recall what plane it was but i think it sparked my interest in planes............
 
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Reply #51 - Jan 26th, 2007 at 5:48pm

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ive been in the cockpit of a C-5 galaxy during flight. thats a freakin huge plane btw. some kids from my school went down to Dover Airforce Base and took a tour of the plane and then flew in it. i was one of the lucky ones to go in the cockpit.  Smiley
 
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Reply #52 - Jan 26th, 2007 at 6:05pm
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ducktape wrote on Jan 26th, 2007 at 5:48pm:
ive been in the cockpit of a C-5 galaxy during flight. thats a freakin huge plane btw.

Is it really?



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Reply #53 - Jan 27th, 2007 at 8:10am
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beaky wrote on Jan 19th, 2007 at 8:09pm:
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I got in the pilot seat of a Concorde cockpit thanks to my grandad while at 60000 FT while going Mach 2. Bearing in mind that was in 1998.

Isn't that totally illegal, terrorism aside?
Were you perhaps in the jump seat, or the engineer's seat?


My grandad used to work for British airways before he retired.
 
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Reply #54 - Jan 27th, 2007 at 3:01pm

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beaky wrote on Jan 19th, 2007 at 8:09pm:
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I got in the pilot seat of a Concorde cockpit thanks to my grandad while at 60000 FT while going Mach 2. Bearing in mind that was in 1998.

Isn't that totally illegal, terrorism aside?
Were you perhaps in the jump seat, or the engineer's seat?


My grandad used to work for British airways before he retired.


It doesn't matter who he worked for... it's illegal for non-crewmembers to sit in crew seats in flight on an airliner; has been for a long time.
I believe it's OK for one crewmember to get up (for a potty break or whatever), but as far as I know it's not OK for anyone other than crew to sit in the left or right seat in flight.
Not that I really care, personally... if they thought it was safe, so be it... but if anyone who was present is not retired, you could be exposing them to trouble by revealing such things online.
 
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Reply #55 - Jan 28th, 2007 at 3:30am

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ive sat in the copilots seat of a qantas 737 and the copilots seat of a C-130 both during flight
 
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Reply #56 - Jan 28th, 2007 at 6:58am
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CSM wrote on Jan 28th, 2007 at 3:30am:
ive sat in the copilots seat of a qantas 737 and the copilots seat of a C-130 both during flight


See even he has.
 
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Reply #57 - Jan 28th, 2007 at 9:29am

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CSM wrote on Jan 28th, 2007 at 3:30am:
ive sat in the copilots seat of a qantas 737 and the copilots seat of a C-130 both during flight


See even he has.


He was less specific though, and Qantas have more 737s than BA ever had Concordes... Wink
 
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Reply #58 - Jan 28th, 2007 at 11:49am

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Shame now no ones allowed in the cockpit now days...

I remember when I was 6 on a 747 being asked by one of the cabin crew if would like to see "Were the pilot sat" the cockpit I remember were over the atlantic and I was amazed by all the switches and lights etc and how the throttles were moving by themselves Grin

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Reply #59 - Jan 28th, 2007 at 7:28pm

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masmith wrote on Jan 28th, 2007 at 11:49am:
the cockpit I remember were over the atlantic

My god! - How long was the plane?  Shocked Shocked Shocked

Sorry, sorry, it's late & the sarcasm flows with the wine  Smiley Smiley

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