Originally Posted by
Coffeemadman
As someone who finds flying rather stressful (despite flying a fair amount I still have a nagging fear of the thing) I find the captain announcement very important; it’s usually their explanation of flight cruising and flight conditions that set my mind at ease should turbulence occur.
Appreciate this might not be something that those who have no issue can understand but trust me plenty do like that 40 seconds of muttering.
How do you feel when a pilot pops out of the flightdeck for 15-20 minutes to chat up the young flight crew or have a long leg stretch on a short flight to, say, Glasgow?
I hate it. Knowing there's only one on the flightdeck, and that one is the only one who can let exited pilot in. The worry is that the remaining pilot could become incapacitated. It happens.
I had a pilot out of the flightdeck for so long a couple of weeks back I was on the very verge of making my unhappiness known to the IFL, when, thankfully at that moment, the pilot went back to his job.
You're usually only aware of this scenario if sitting in row 1, possibly 2