How common is smoking in the cockpits?

[ackattacker]

I've seen it jumpseating on a CAL 767 during taxi out, with the window open. Captain was on his last trip before retirement, but it had a practised look about it.

 

[Headfake14]

I knew friends at ASA that lit up on the E120 when the 120s were going bye bye...did it on the "delivery" flights to where ever.


ALSO...haha...this also involves the "mile high" --

FO was telling me a story...and I totally believe him considering who was the crew.

Empty flight--CA went to the back and hooked up with one of the FAs..ATR by the way...meanwhile the other FA was up in the flightdeck with the FO fooling around. While she was on his lap in his seat (all from this FOs story) the AFT smoke warning goes off. He calls back to the galley...CA answers intercom and says don't worry, "we're smoking a couple cigars" !?

All pre 9/11....good ole days

 

[EatinRamen]

I worked as an F/A for a 121 Supplemental while getting my ratings. I'd routinely have to come up with BS excuses to the passengers about why all of a sudden, the cabin smelled like cigarette smoke. Like someone else said before, it was an older "good old-boys" group of pilots that lit up in the cockpit.

 

[Floatplane]

Flew with 2 different guys on the RJ that smoked on the taxi out with the window open and both packs on. Sucked the smoke out pretty well.

The windows on the CL-65 do not open, it must have been a jungle jet, huh?

 

[CA1900]

The windows on the CL-65 do not open...

No, but the roof does... :laugh:

 

[SuperFLUF]

I've seen one captain in 5 years at a regional and two in 11 years at a major.

 

[Beetle007]

It usually only takes one Carcinogen to kill you. It is a game of probability. If we were omnipotent, we could trace cancer to the single event that caused it. For smokers, that means the one cigarette that killed you. For second hand smokers, it means the one person who killed you by lighting up.

I worry because all deaths in my family have been caused by cigarettes. My dad died from lung cancer. To me, this means I am genetically more likely to develop cancer from second hand smoke. If I am jumpseating, it is their cockpit. If I am working, I don't like captains lighting up with me in the cockpit.

 

[outtahere]

I just dip snuff (Copenhagen). No harm done to anyone else unless I spill the cup on them. Oops!

 

[TriStar_drvr]

Yea, guys used to smoke on the TriStar. Most went down in the EE compartment below the cockpit. The first time a Captain shook the yoke while down there scared the h*ll out of me. Sometimes FAs would come up to smoke too. I think three in the compartment was the most at one time.

Once, when both the Captain and the Engineer wanted to smoke, they asked me to go back to the cabin to check that the landing gear indicator "pucks" on the wing were in the proper position. It took me a minute, but when I figured it out, I told them it would take me between 10-15 minutes to do that. They were pleased with that response and again when I offered to do it again several hours later.

I'll never forget those days...

 

[Fubijaakr]

Haven't seen it in 15 years or so. We used to have a guy who needed to burn one every hour or so. But he's been retired for a long time. Died at 62.

BTW, its NOT illegal for the crew to smoke. Just the passengers.