Originally Posted by
flyburg
Wow,
Don't make this a U.S. versus European pilots! Totally uncalled for!
The reason I made the contrast was that the CC in the cockpit answer is the standard in the US and doesn't appear to have suffered from any of the issues raised in this thread. It was not a comment on the relative skills of US and European pilots (Although I was poking fun at the concept that any pilot anywhere in the developed world would be distracted from flight critical activity by CC manning the door)
I am genuinely surprised by the number of posters who have raised the possibility that CC can be so readily infiltrated by terrorists that being alone in the cockpit for a short time with a CC member could present a credible risk of terrorist action ... yet having that same person with an airside pass and free to move about the aircraft in flight is OK.