I've had a few B1900 flights where the pilot left the door open. In fact, the only time I can recall the door being closed at all was on takeoff from IAD; the rest of that flight, as well as the nice 30-odd mile hop from BLF-BKW, and the return BKW-IAD, the door was wide open.
Sitting in row 2, I got to really enjoy the view out of the front of the plane, particularly for the landings. And could hear the instruments and communications, which was fascinating, too. (Hearing the altitude called out in 10s of feet on the final approach was cool.)
I had a nice chat about B1900 flights with a NIST employee later that year who also had had the pleasure of getting to watch through the open door several times. Another person I was working with, though, was aghast and thought the pilots should be fined.
We tried to tell him we're talking tiny turboprop, with single-columns of seats (you're both an aisle AND a window seat anywhere but the very last row), no FA service, no overheads, etc., but he kept insisting, "You can't be too safe."
Originally Posted by
quantas4me
Nice job explaning in such fine detail's for all terists to read and learn's all about how to see if you're door isnt proparly latched. You're airline should have a rules about telling that in publich make us passangers safer. Probaly does I guiess. Are your really B747 pilate? Should know better than tell terists securtiy informations. Nice going.
Oh, come now. The whole, "Cover your eyes and ears and hope the terrorists do the same," thing, so often abused in the name of "security" is incredibly lame.
Just keep sticking your head in the sand there.
It's like saying, "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain," and thinking that will somehow make the man go away. Or, to invoke the words of someone I know that were he still alive would have a great time poking fun at the inanities of the security carnival: put a towel over your head to fool those terrorists, because if you can't see them, they can't see you, either.