Originally Posted by
Phantom Flyer
....and if a controller wants to jumpseat on your aircraft, welcome them onboard. It will pay huge dividends downstream. Even though 9/11 has changes some of the requirements for a facitity visit, make the effort to do so.
PLEASE DO NOT DO OFFER YOUR JUMPSEAT TO A CONTROLLER.
PLEASE. Save their job, if they are too stupid to know that since Sep 11, 2001, controllers have not been privy to non-rev or jumpseat status (actually, they were never privy to non-rev).
There has been at least one controller who was fired for this. There have been others who haven't been caught. No matter what it may say in your SOP / FOM, the FAA does not give approval to controllers to do this.
Tony Williams
FAA ATC, 1988-2007
former NATCA facility rep