Flight Deck's

philbozz · Post by **philbozz** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 4:28 pm

Have you ever been in the cockpit of an aircraft before???

Which ones???

Ive been in:

Civil:

B767(Brittania BHX-IBZ in the middle of a storm aswell, it was great!!!)
A320(Airtours PMI-BHX uneventful)
VC-10(at Cosford Air Museum)
Trident(same as above)

Military:

A training plane....can't think what it was(Cosford air museum)
Gnat(Red arrow...or very similair anyway)

I've flown a Piper Cherokee 140 and a Cessna 152

Fodda · Post by **Fodda** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 4:34 pm

Co-pilot's seat in a Trident, whilst 'taxiing' (towed more like) into BEA hangar at Heathrow (also visited the tower that day as my great uncle got me and my bruv a complete day at his work... BEA Heathrow).

Pilot and navigator seat, as well as bomb aimers cradle in two Mosquitos.

Pilot seat in DH Vampire.

Cockpit in Concorde.

Cockpit visit on flight to Portugal in DC-10 (twice, once there and once back).

Not a bad collection, but then there was more opportunity to climb over old planes when I was younger.

Also got to 'control' WW2 AA gun in Sion park before it got chained up.

Post by **martinhodgson** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 4:37 pm

Something between Copenhagen and Manchester, not sure what (was only 4, and it was pre-aviation hobby!), but I suspect it was a 737 of some description.

Virgin Atlantic 747-200 Manchester - Orlando

Bulldog tutor RAF Woodvale

Grob Tutor RAF Woodvale

Speedbird083 · Post by **Speedbird083** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 5:26 pm

-RN Westland Sea King.
-Avro Vulcan at what was Sunderland Air Museum. Not sure if it is sill there though. I suspect Nissan is well on the way to acquiring most of Washington

.
-RAF Harrier. Whether it was a Gr.3 or a Gr.5 I dont know... but too long ago to be a Gr.7.

pepsipowell · Post by **pepsipowell** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 5:38 pm

Once, when I was 7, between Heathrow and Los Angeles, although I was too young to know what it was (747 possibly?)

Jonathan

kyle14uk · Post by **kyle14uk** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 6:02 pm

On my recent holdiay to New York, quite surprisingly, the pilot allowed me and my little bro's to have a look around & he also gave us the flight map

. I only think he did because one of my little brothers drew him a picture.

Deltic9000 · Post by **Deltic9000** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 8:09 pm

Sat in and flown (LH & RH seat): Cessna 150, A150, 152.

Sat in only:
EE Canberra, Avro Vulcan, Shackleton, DH Comet, Mosquito, B-25.

Ambitions:
to sit in a Lightning, Hunter, Phantom, Harrier.
To fly a Chipmunk, Tiger Moth, SF.260

chazcozens · Post by **chazcozens** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:33 am

Have visited the cockpit whilst in flight of:

Continental DC-10
Air Atlantique DC-3
Alitalia DC-9 (and I was on that deck from five minutes after the seat belt light went off over the alps until you could see the Gatwick runway - thank you very much to the Alitalia crew for that!)
And a number of Cessna 152's (including on my own!

)

Static - too numerous to recall; but highlights include a USAF AC-130U,
USN A4 Skyhawk, Boeing B17, and a USCG Dauphin. Working air museums in the States were (prior to 9/11) much happier about you looking round the site than this country, and if the owner/operator of a particular aircraft was about it was normally no problem to cadge a cockpit visit. Also doing the Friends of RIAT thing in the past has got me into cockpits on the non-public days. Again, if there were no security issues (I wasn't allowed to photograph on the AC130, for example) US crews were much better at letting you on/into stuff. I would always talk to the crew first; showing them you have a reasonably good grasp of the subject and aren't likely to ask dumb questions is a good start. Politeness helps, as well. Then ask; don't ask, don't get. I've got on stuff where, whilst I've been talking to the crew, someone has come up and gone "Any chance of a flight deck visit" (interrupting the conversation, often without so much as a please) and been told no; only to be invited up on to the flight deck 5 minutes later, having said at the end of the conversation "I gather there's no chance of a flight deck visit?" to which the response was "Not for that dumb **** there wasn't!"

I guess things have probably changed, though.

mattvince · Post by **mattvince** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:07 pm

Sat in cockpit on ground only - these I do remember:
Royal Navy Phantom FG.1 - FAA Museum, Yeovilton.
Armee de l'Air (French Air Force) Dassault Mirage 2000-5F of EC 2/2 - Dijon Longvic.
Plus a few I don't.

Speedbird083 · Post by **Speedbird083** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:49 pm

Speedbird083 wrote:-Avro Vulcan at what was Sunderland Air Museum. Not sure if it is still there though. I suspect Nissan is well on the way to acquiring most of Washington .

It appears to still be there - Avro Vulcan B2 (XL319)

Post by **martinhodgson** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:59 pm

Speedbird083 wrote:Avro Vulcan B2 (XL319)

How long did THAT take you

Speedbird083 · Post by **Speedbird083** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:03 pm

. You like

?
A minute at the most.

CaldRail · Post by **CaldRail** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 5:33 pm

C130 Hercules
HS125
Avro Shackleton
DC3

Plus a whole variety of light aircraft.

And some of them were moving too.....

Stooopidperson · Post by **Stooopidperson** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:56 pm

I have been to the Cockpit of a British Airways 747-400, 6 years ago(before all the terrorism things) on a flight from Heathrow to Singapore.

cadet200 · Post by **cadet200** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:52 am

4 757's
A321 G-JSJX
Tornado GR4
RAF Sea King