Originally Posted by
chuck416
For real? I'm just kind of 'arm-chair' thinking right now. But, :25 min. prior to push??? I really wonder how it would be received if, as a captain, you simply told the guy who wants to inspect your aircraft :25 prior to push if you politely, but resolutely, refused to let the guy aboard your A/C? You know, there are usually a row of 757 & 767s over at the hanger and north ramp, suggest that he go inspect any and or all of those aircraft. But while you're boarding? Gimme' a break! Just my off the cuff thinking, but really!
Back when I was a stressed out commuter captain, I had a fed inspect the aircraft... he was walking around the outside as I'm doing the preflight in the cockpit, and suddenly the stall warning, sick pusher all goes off. On this particular airplane, the stall warning device on the leading edges looked much like the G. A. version you'd see on a Cessna. But it was worlds apart, heated, and very sensitive... "never touch" was all we ever heard in ground school. So after getting my knees whacked by the yoke, and looking out the cockpit to see this joker messing with MY AIRPLANE, I stormed down the boarding stairs and read him the riot act. I'm sure had I not been 25, poor, stressed, tired and probably hungry, I would have been more diplomatic about the whole thing. He sat quietly in the back of the plane for the flight though... never heard or saw him again!