what a load of crap!
cockpitvisit wants himself put through a background check so he doesn't have to go through the whole security thing...FINE.
at your expense, and you pay a fee to maintain the system...oh yeah, and the rigors of checking you out include retinal scan so that no one could impersonate you.
by the time you get to the cockpit as a pilot, you can ''smell'' if someone isn't who they say they are. And once you are on a trip, you are with the same pilot for 2,3,4, or more days.
The big thing about the issue of school bus versus airliners are this. If you killed all the kids on a school bus, that is a tragedy. but if you drive a school bus into the Sears Tower (willis tower or whatever)...you break a little glass.
If you fly a 747 into it...well, disaster on an epic proportion.
Me, I am for profiling...but until then...make the best of it.