Airline & Airport Security - Fear of Flying

[TheFoundSoul]

After these lessons i think i'll finally be able to just enjoy going on holiday this year :D

[dancingfreak422]

Capt Stacey; I went through lessons 1, 2, and 3 of your course, but I was still nervous about flying. I was afraid of it for any reason you could possibly think of. Then, though, when I read the part about airport security and the rest of lesson 4, I wasn't so afraid anymore! Thank you soooo much for making this course, and I hope it could help other people like it helped me! Thanks again! ~Kate

[biggyjurss12]

i thought it was mandatory for one of the flight attendants to know the correct procedure for an ILS landing.

[airste172]

Go to Google, type in "pilots asleep" and for the first time in your life you'll hear (read) about it. Even if flight attendants knew how to fly (which they don't) and every passenger on the plane was a qualified pilot, there is no way to get into the cockpit to wake up the pilots let alone have someone else fly the plane. If you really believe what you wrote, the misconceptions you have are quite shocking.

[rhillner]

You're wrong. Flight Attendents have the code to unlock the FD door.

[airste172]

Can you site any specific data that supports your claim that flight attendants have a code or a key? If a flight attendant has the code then the attendant could be forced to open the door which would make the impregnable door useless.

What happened to the attendants' codes on flights that missed their airports while the pilots were asleep?

[rhillner]

I don't know. But I definatly have seen a FA on one of my flights gain access to the flight deck by entering numbers into the keypad that was next to the door.

[cameronhsv]

There are two pilots, so this is highly unlikley, and the cabin crew can always pick up the intercom which rings in the cock pit until a pilot answers.

[airste172]

The high security cockpit doors also insure that the pilots will not be disturbed in the event that they are taking a nap during the flight.

[photray94]

Never in my life have I heard of not only both pilots sleep at the same time, but all flight attendants too. Flight attendants have the ability to either A) successfully land the plane because they're trained pilots also or B) efficiently turn on autopilot while contacting an ATC who can help out, and not only that but planes have an autopilot landing mechanism. You get -1 for your comment have a nice day :)

[stickyjeans69]

Flight attendants know nothing about the cockpit buddy, not unless they have taken flight training or talk to the pilots a lot the flightdeck door also has No key and can only be opened from the Inside. 2 pilots Sleeping never happens either, One takes a nap one monitors the aircraft while it's on the Autopilot, Most intercontinental Flights will have 3 Gentlemen on the Flightdeck and 2 may sleep while one monitors :), Have a Nice day, you got a -1 also

[rhillner]

The flight deck door has a numeric code to it you idiot. Flight attendants know what the code is.

[stickyjeans69]

Hey, You idiot, There is an electronic controller in every modern flightdeck with the option of UNLCK or LCK Guess where that Controller goes once the airplane pushes back =], Nobody can get into the flightdeck unless the pilot's say so. just how it works

[rhillner]

Thats what I thought too, until I saw what I mentioned on a flight.

[stickyjeans69]

Alright then, I'm open to the Idea, but you gotta prove it =]. walk the talk and I can take a loss as long as I improve from it

[cameronhsv]

(B) is a possibility but it is far too complicated for a member of the crew to take over, unless they had flight training, in which case he / she would be one of the pilots in the first place.