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Sure wish I could've seen border agents before 2001, voice is the vibe was way more chill.

dudul 7y ago
I once told a younger coworker that before 9/11 kids could actually visit the cockpit of the plane during a flight. He wouldn't believe me. A lot of things were way more chill before that yeah.
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- chihuahua 7y ago
  I remember doing this on a flight from Frankfurt to New York in 1984 or 1987. My mother used to be a flight attendant on the same airline so she asked if we could go, and me and my brother and my mother could go into the cockpit somewhere over the Atlantic ocean. I was in my early teens at the time and it was very cool.
- dvcrn 7y ago
  I had equal wonder when someone told me you were able to visit the cockpit. Too bad
- aledalgrande 7y ago
  I remember that too, just never been to the US in those days. You could see the cockpit from the front seats because the door was open and from time to time the pilot would come hangout too. Currently listening to Schwarzegger's bio and he landed in the US in the 60s after like weeks of deciding to migrate and had no job apart from being a body builder. No H1B process (for which he wouldn't have qualified anyways). Other times...
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- aryehof 7y ago
  As a child, I traveled a lot (international) with my parents. I had a log book (available for children from many airlines) that was signed by the Captain or First Officer on the flight deck of each flight. I don't recall a visit to the flight deck ever being refused, except on an extremely short flight. The world has changed much since those days, generally not for the better.
- wpearse 7y ago
  As a kid I visited the cockpit and was invited to sit in the jump seat of an Airbus 320 landing in Rome a day before 9/11. One of my favourite childhood memories.
DoreenMichele 7y ago
Our choice to be increasingly paranoid is perhaps not really the best path forward. It might even be counterproductive (a la the beatings shall continue until morale improves).
DrScump 7y ago
Access by non-crew was restricted in USA airspace before then. I flew to Canada a few times a year in the late 1990s. I was invited into the cockpit several times, but I had to be out before we reached US airspace.

I once told a younger coworker that before 9/11 kids could actually visit the cockpit of the plane during a flight. He wouldn't believe me. A lot of things were way more chill before that yeah.

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chihuahua 7y ago
I remember doing this on a flight from Frankfurt to New York in 1984 or 1987. My mother used to be a flight attendant on the same airline so she asked if we could go, and me and my brother and my mother could go into the cockpit somewhere over the Atlantic ocean. I was in my early teens at the time and it was very cool.
dvcrn 7y ago
I had equal wonder when someone told me you were able to visit the cockpit. Too bad
aledalgrande 7y ago
I remember that too, just never been to the US in those days. You could see the cockpit from the front seats because the door was open and from time to time the pilot would come hangout too. Currently listening to Schwarzegger's bio and he landed in the US in the 60s after like weeks of deciding to migrate and had no job apart from being a body builder. No H1B process (for which he wouldn't have qualified anyways). Other times...
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aryehof 7y ago
As a child, I traveled a lot (international) with my parents. I had a log book (available for children from many airlines) that was signed by the Captain or First Officer on the flight deck of each flight. I don't recall a visit to the flight deck ever being refused, except on an extremely short flight. The world has changed much since those days, generally not for the better.
wpearse 7y ago
As a kid I visited the cockpit and was invited to sit in the jump seat of an Airbus 320 landing in Rome a day before 9/11. One of my favourite childhood memories.

DoreenMichele 7y ago

Our choice to be increasingly paranoid is perhaps not really the best path forward. It might even be counterproductive (a la the beatings shall continue until morale improves).

DrScump 7y ago

Access by non-crew was restricted in USA airspace before then. I flew to Canada a few times a year in the late 1990s. I was invited into the cockpit several times, but I had to be out before we reached US airspace.