avherald: Pilots fired for letting pax take pilot seat

[mikehammer]

• Yes, similar to those above with experience in the late seventies, I was also kindly allowed into the flight deck and to 'steer' the plane in the cruise towards Menorca. Both pilots kept their seats and I stood by the jump seat. That exciting experience as a kid is why I am a pilot today. Those chaps could have refused me entry and saved me from a career marred by petty needless rules (mainly associated with security on the ground rather than in the air)!