With your huge ego waying your head down, when you suffer a heart attack or something in the line of an anuerism that causes you to slump forward because your seatbelts weren't locked. The other crewmember might need some help hauling your body off the controls. They can't fly the plane and push you around. That might be an instance where you need someone to help out. You'd be thankful they were there then.
But based on your shortsighted response, I most certainly assume you'd be able to just jump in the phonebooth kick out the bottom of the plane and with the big S painted on your underoos, gently lower the plane to safety, all by yourself.
Never underestimate the help of ANY individual be it FA, FO, or any other jumpseat rider you may have on your flight deck.
Let me set it straight for all you who may have gotten the wrong message from that.This was a direct reply to a previous older thread in which the poster said that FD JS should be exclusive to pilots only. I will post the link if i find it.
There are times and places, but if there is an emergecy such as an engine out in flight- i will not be asking a js to get involved unless it is absolutely necessary.I say this to show my support for letting other non-flying types(non-pilots) into the FD jumpseat. Most people are smart and capable, you give a mechanic or FA a class on sterile cockpit and they will stay quiet for 90% of the flight.
I know this to be a fact as on a ferry at Midwest I let a FA sit up frontshe was a real talker-and her breath was as bad as her conversation ideas.I knew it and told her before she sat down that we couldnt have her yakking as we needed to hear atc and sterile cockpit still applied....she stayed quiet, and we survived as the air quality stayed somewhat managable.
And as for ruining the commute for pilots, there could be rules set in place to prevent that like- Pilots have priority over the jumpseat in the same way most FA's have priority over the cabin JS.