Reader Jacob asked the following question in the request Lucky forum,approximately visiting the cockpit when flying on an airline:"Hi! I recently did a round trip ORD-SLC on American Eagle operated by Envoy in F (CR7) . On the flight back, I got in a conversion with the pilot as the crew was in the cabin. The pilot then asked if I wanted to move up in the flight deck. I happily said yes and spent a profitable 20 minutes up there just before the boarding door was closed. I'm writing this question as I'm wondering what the rules are on going into the flight deck in the future. Thanks!"For most airlines, and long gone are the days where you can visit the flight deck inflight,and possibly even sit in the cockpit for takeoff and landing. Several years back I was on a Thai Airways flight and asked the flight attendant if I might be able to visit the cockpit after landing. To my surprise she returned 10 minutes later and said "how would you like to visit now?" I was floored, and spent approximately 20 minutes in the cockpit while we were enroute to Bangkok. It nearly felt scandalous, and given that I'm so used to the post-9/11 security mentality.
But even for airlines which were previously lenient approximately inflight visits,I suspect they've gotten even stricter lately, following the Germanwings crash last year. For the most part even pilots can't freely enter and exit the cockpit inflight anymore.
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