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dukeboy_318 said

When I was younger, dad used to take me up to meet the pilots after landing, and one time after flying into St Louis, one of them actually gave me his wings. Don’t know what I ever did with them, but that was pretty cool. If I recall right, it was TWA at the time. Sadly, a bunch of psycho terrorists decided to use planes as human filled missiles and now are the doors are kept shut and they no longer let kids see the cockpits

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Only partially true.

On boarding, pilots of commercial aircraft allow kids to see the cockpit and sometimes take the time to give them a little tour. Also, almost all airlines now have the pilot standing in the open door of the cockpit after landing and take the time to address each passenger as they depart.

Airlines have made extra efforts to connect the pilots with the passengers since regulations now require them to be physically separated from them in flight.

The terrorists may have changed the in-flight security rules, but they haven’t changed our humanity nor the airlines recognition of the need to have a connection of trust in our pilots.