Thread: Flight this morning had an open cockpit

Makes it easy for unruly passengers to seize the plane, no need to bust the cockpit door open.
And I thought Cattle class was cramped. LOL

That looks like a Metro.
No one wants to seize the cockpit.

When you said "flight this morning had an open cockpit", I immediately thought of my only flight in a DH82A, better known as a Tiger Moth. It was interesting, albeit a bit breezy.

I once flew to Lord Howe Island like that. The pilot spent most of the trip reading a newspaper with the plane on autopilot.

I remember as a kid getting to ride in the cockpit from qld to melb, my old man worked for ansett at the time and back then you could pull strings. He even drove us around the tarmac and the runways at melb airport, you would get shot doing that now

Originally Posted by strangy

That looks like a Metro.
No one wants to seize the cockpit.

Yes I think it was a metro......edit just checked yes a Metro 23

Even the shortest person has to bend over to walk up the isle. Got me buggered how older people or peoples in general with mobility issue get on and off the plane.

No cabin service or loo.....

Bloody Hell! If it is this one they can hold 19pax. OMFG!

Some one would be bound to want the dunny & there ain't one.


Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner - Wikipedia

and back then you could pull strings.

Do you mean the old "trick" of the Pilot coming out of the cockpit holding 2 balls of string & asking a Pax to steer the plane?

"Pull the left string to turn left & the right to turn right, I'm going to the toilet down the back end"


Of course we all know the Co-pilot was actually carrying out the maneuver in response to the string being pulled. Didn't we?



I bet that used to put the ****s up the selected pax, I know it would me.

Brilliant aeroplane.

I did literally hundreds of flights in them in the 90's.

They mostly fly all over this country at night now delivering newspapers and groceries.

Very fast, very efficient as all Swearingen aeroplanes were/are.