Except: If we have an unscheduled Part 91 ferry flight (to position to/from maintenance) which is treated as general aviation, we can actually have a buddy or family member on the jumpseat, or in back. I wouldn't want my wife or boy on the jumpseat if we take off from 'outsourced work' and suffer a major systems failure, not to mention a compound problem! Considering the serious problems documented in airplanes from such low-budget maintenance hangars (that's why they get the contracts for the work) as the one in Dothan, AL (tragically, the Andrews AFB Navy Reserve squadron lost a CV-580 and crew years ago during an emergency attempt to return to Dothan: the missed inspection of the elevator cable allowed the yoke to go forward, but not backward).
During revenue flight with our company, a senior company executive sending up his ID beforehand via a flt. attendant may enter, as one of our former 'wonder boy' co-owners did enroute from LAX to MSP not too long ago. He came up to brag about our superior marketing people versus the ***toids' people.
[This message has been edited by Ignition Override (edited 30 July 2000).]