Airline Carry On Rules For Luggage

Alloy Boy asked: Do you airline pilots think its a good idea to qualify to carry a firearm in the cockpit, especially since the air marshals are having staffing problems? Is the training sufficient? What if a 20 something co-pilot is armed and the 50+ grizzled vet captain is not/not qualified? does the captain have [...]

According to the TSA, over ten per cent of airline crewmembers in the US are authorized to carry guns onboard. The Federal Air Marshal Service runs a program for armed pilots as a TSA agency and estimates that 85,000 to 90,000 pilots and crew are eligible to carry a gun on domestic passenger and cargo [...]