Originally Posted by
Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP
Pilots on a 2 crew aircraft should not be chatting for 30 minutes in the cabin. Do your job.
It's a crew-job. 30 minutes is probably an arbitrary number that on forums needs to be translated as "too long in the mind of the observer" as he felt the need to go up on the internet and question a pilot forum about it.
We are no robots. Social interactions are healthy and necessary. Yet some people still find it normal a pilot has to stay on the flightdeck for 6 hours to prevent... wait what? suicide? We should try to impose this on people in offices. Don't leave for more than 30 minutes, don't dare to talk to someone longer than 15 minutes when venturing of the door. Newspapers would be full of it...
Be happy this happens. Be happy we get along and talk to other people... it's healthy. It's natural. For some reason people still find it acceptable a pilot has to stay up front in his seat for 4-8 hours, doomed to talk by only looking left or right and having to listen to a code before he allows somebody in on the flightdeck?
Also, passengers are advised to get up and stretch their legs for health reasons... no wait, "people flying commercially" are advised to get up and stretch their legs. And that means passengers & crew.