Hi folks,
It really is great to get invited up into the jumpseat.
First time for me was (I feel like a little kid now haha!) over to Bilbao on Go-Fly out of Stansted. PPRuNes Crashdive had kindly put a copy of my thread, requesting the jumpseat, into the Captain and First Officers pigeon holes. Top bloke because on boarding, after handing my ickle note to the Flight Attendant, I was shown straight up to the F/D.
That was my first time on an airliner (well, I did have a trip when I was 3 but memory is weak!) and one I will
always remember. Thanks CD!
Coming home afterwards, same trick. Note to the Captain, handed to the F/A, sit and wait.
Out pops the Captain and waves me up! Jeez, I couldn't believe my luck! Get into cruise and the Captain turns out to be PPRuNe Towers! Small world. We chat very briefly about his website before we decend and land.
Cracking trips - thanks again guys, beers for you at the Bash me thinks!
Second and only other J/S trip was with BA over to Miami earlier this year on a 747-400. Was allowed up for the landing - it felt as if we were still at FL100 when the rear undercarrage was hitting the runway! High? Wow!!
Coming home got the T/O and landing. Gatwick was shrouded in fog at 0715 so they did an autoland. Interesting stuff, I felt as privilaged as ever. Top marks again guys - we never discussed PPRuNe but maybe you read the site and can recognise that nerd in the shorts and tee-shirt in -4c of fog at LGW - sunburnt!
Was that me?
I knew it was going to be cold in England but I was so burned up from Florida I really did not care!
I had visions of myself rolling in the beautiful cold frost at LGW!
Thanks to all the pilots who allow us up there, I too hope to be in a position to do the same myself one day.
Regards, VFE.
[This message has been edited by VFE (edited 13 April 2001).]