guns on the flight deck!
I was very disturbed at the balpa response to the security issue, i e ,"we want to see better pax screening instead" . I'm sorry to sound a bit surprised at this.
I think that security can always be beaten,so I think the best security will always be the unpredictable, i e some pilots with guns,some sky, marshals,unpredictable seat allocation, strong doors on the flight deck, cctv cameras etc etc, so that nobody can predict the level of security for any given flight.
as for the idea, that a flight deck weapon will just arm a terrorist,is I think,laughable. Because if they are in the flight deck, your in trouble.A gun is a last resort,the very last resort,and if you need to resort to a lethal force to retain control of your a/c then so be it, it has no downside, and just might save the day,
The noise and blast, that comes out of the hole of even a lightly loaded .45 is awesome, and we could use a safety slug.
come on balpa I WANT ONE NOW.