Originally Posted by
hawkerjet
we already have cockpit doors installed in transport category aircraft, maybe there is a way to utilize the locked door during periods not in service. remember we can only mitigate the risk to a point thats low and acceptable but not 100%.
Don‘t want to contemplate the logistics of that. How would you unlock them? Dozens to hundreds of keys for a Fleet managed by whom? How would keys be passed from one crew to another when they don‘t meet at the A/C and generic keys would be worthless.
Codes would require some way of frequently changing and notifying them as well.
Ground staff needs access to flight decks to tow A/C, so if you want to cover two-person only access you‘d need some dual code protocol.
All this sounds mightily expensive to avoid a very infrequent problem. Money should better be spent for real safety improvements like vertical profile WX radar, onboard ground weather radar reception, EVAS, etc. A lot of guys still have to fly around without ACARS and Non-mandatory A/C software updates get postponed for cost reasons in these low-cost days....