Originally Posted by
lovely15
The day they decide they are equal to the FAA is the day I surrender my certificate. I'm not an airline pilot, but no $#@! way would I let any of them on an aircraft I was piloting.
I'm not ok with the idea of them being on the flight deck on a plane I was a passenger on, for that matter.
I'm not a pilot, however, if I were, as the "commander in charge" of the airplane, I would put it quite bluntly: the plane doesn't move until the cockpit door is locked and the cockpit is occupied only by people qualified to be in there. If TSA clerks "have to" be on board to ensure the "security" of the cockpit, they can stand outside the door during the whole flight, and every time I had to use the bathroom, I'd make sure to push the door open really hard to bean them in the head.