Rainboe,
Back in 1996 I took my then girlfriend, now wife, to Amsterdam with BA from Manchester. When I asked her if she'd ever visited the flightdeck, incredibly the answer was no - so at the age 23 she made her first visit to the FD, and got to initate the descent to AMS - she came back with the biggest grin ever on her face. 9 years on and I'm in the middle of ATPL training, and her support is incredible, and I belive in part, to that experience.
It is terrible that these visits can not take place any more, and of lament that if I am lucky enough to pass all my exams, and then even luckier to get a job, she will never be able to see me in action, nor my parents who are also helping me out.
DW