Originally Posted by
anchorhold
Things have gone from one extreme in the 1990, when pax though it was part of the deal to visit the flightdeck, but these days it concerns me how difficult it may be for legitimate people to experience a jumpseat flight as part of thier training, such as ATC cadets, meteorolgists, aircraft engineers and research scientists. The later I mention because their are number scientists in Europe who are studying the feasabilty of single crew airline operation, I can not imagine the have had the jumpseat experience.
As an Engineer I never had any problems getting on the jumpseat - in fact it was one of my greatest annoyances when check-in staff would give away my (blocked) Business Class seat and expect me to sit on the flt deck without asking me.
