Ever been in a real cockpit?

[Conan Edogawa]

The avatar is too dark, I can't really tell  :P

Watch my homepage http://www.crashpilot.uk.tt or my msn space: http://www.bruchpilot.de.gg

[ozzy72]

Been in loads of cockpits of big jets. I was lucky that I did a lot of travelling as a wee lad during the boom times of the 70s and 80s and it was the norm for little boys to be allowed into the cockpit for a nose around 8-)

[Tweek]

I've been in a few, but most notably an Avro Vulcan, a Canberra B.2 (mod) and a Super Guppy 201 - of which I also went in the cargo hold, which is big enough to live in.

[NDSP]

Do you think Alitalia will be nice enough to let someone into the Flight Deck  :-?

[beaky]

Do you think Alitalia will be nice enough to let someone into the Flight Deck  :-?

Tell them you have less than a year to live and always wanted to be an airline pilot.  ;D

[Woodlouse2002]

I've sat in a Shackelton cockpit. Admittedly it's not attached to the aeroplane and is in a shed at Flambards, but it has to count for something. Right?

[beefhole]

I believe it was a couple of midwest pilots in a DC-9 who started me on my path to becoming a pilot, back in 1998ish when I was flying to Milwaukee alone to see my grandparents.  They invited me into the cockpit when we were deplaning.  I got a pair of wings and was eventually pried out, but I never really left.  

Since then, with my dad's new job, I've been fortunate enough to ride F/O seat in a Hawker and jumpseat in a G4.  Just over christmas break I flew myself and my father up to Trenton-Mercer (TTN) in a put-put 172 and we got the grand tour of the corporate hangar-two G4s, a G5, the Hawker (in the last throes of its service days), and an awesome Eurocopter Dauphin.  I asked the extremely nice and friendly pilot showing us around a very important question that had been lingering in my head-"Do you ever learn how to gracefully get in and out of the cockpit?" (I'm not so graceful getting into the 172, and I basically tumble out of it).

Apparently, when the seats slide back in a spacey cockpit, the answer is yes  ;D

[BFMF]

I've never flown commercial before I enlisted, but when I was flying to Basic Training, the flight attendant let me visit the cockpit after we had landed. I visited with the captain for a little while while there. The next time, and the last time, I was flying in a 747 over Europe. I must have spent over half an hour visiting with the crew. Of course, I was in uniform, it was a military charter flight, and our destination was Kuwait

As for other cool cockpits that i've sat in, lets see....

B17, DC-3, B-52, C-130, C-5, F-18, SR-71 (It was only the front end of the aircraft, but still...), a vintage C-170, UH-60 Blackhawk, ect

[NDSP]

[quote][quote]Do you think Alitalia will be nice enough to let someone into the Flight Deck

[F3Hadlow]

the final one wasn't so much in the cockpit but the crew of an Irish Air Corps PC9 allowed me to climb up the wing and take a shot of the inside of the cockpit itself.

Nice, isn't it! Bleedin' gorgeous!

Sure is (sorry about stupid text but I've had to lift it straight off my site)!

[rootbeer]

I held the left seat of a C-5 for several minutes back in 1977 or 1978 when there was an airshow at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, AZ. I have a slide of me with my hands on the yoke. The captain took it for me. There was an F-15 there, too, but no one was allowed in and the pilot said I couldn't take any pictures of the instrument panel. Bummer...

[beaky]

Several 'pits, actually..

and most recently, a B738 at KSAN after my flight from EWR

..don't ask about the hat.. the captain was.... well.... persistant that I wear it. :-? (Taken at KSAN)

 :D  :D  :D


Just teasing... I'd like to do that myself, hat and all (if required), but at my age I'd feel like a complete moron asking...

and you flew in a Colt? Now I'm really envious; I love those things.

[Splat762]

Well being in the Navy and working in aviation I've not only had the opportunity to only sit in the cockpit of todays most advanced warplanes...but work in them too.

[C]

the final one wasn't so much in the cockpit but the crew of an Irish Air Corps PC9 allowed me to climb up the wing and take a shot of the inside of the cockpit itself.

Nice, isn't it! Bleedin' gorgeous!

Sure is (sorry about stupid text but I've had to lift it straight off my site)!

Shame about the green though...

[CSM]

my dad was in the raaf so we got to fly around for free and on my first ever flight which was in a C-130 i was invited up into the cockpit that was an amazing experience, i have also been in an f-111 cockpit a bell 206 kiowa, blackhawk, chinook and the most recent a cessna 150