Thank you very much Rambo. I am glad to also have the opinion of a captain.

Now the latest is that they want to implement ´the cockpit in action´, meaning that to improve communication with the flight crew, cabin crew have to go on a day observation flight in the jump seat and do the walk around with the pilot....How About That???? I thought CRM was the best way to improve communication...:cool:
It seems that down here, they are trying to re-invent aviation!:ugh:

I would have no problems at all with CC shadowing a flight crew for the day. An understanding of some of the things involved in the job and the workload and considerations is positive, and will hopefully lead to a better understanding to why, for example, sometimes we are too busy and why it will take some time to respond to them.

I would stop it at that though, I would not tell them how to operate any flight deck switches (other than possibly the r/t ptt switch for use in speaking to Medlink) and I certainly wouldn't want them near any flight critical items.

In my company there is a procedure for CCM to shut off the engines in case of incapacitation during evac. Don't have the procedure here but from the way the instructors tell it in the safety recurrent they just teach them what the engine levers are and that you have to put it in off to put the engines off :). On 737 just look for the throttles and put the switches in front to shutoff. Logic behind it is indeed that a running engine can kill during evac, flaps are less important (no fire risk, suction, heat,etc).

Sounds very nice in theory but I'm not sure in real life how it will happen (stress, panic,....)