The lads got invited onto the flight deck of NZ673 by the burser, and met Arjen the pilot.
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Turns out that on the domestic 747-400s at least, it's not all shiny shiny Pan Am Raybans up front. Just raw functional machinery.
Lucky boys - I'd thought that cockpit visits were a thing of the past, but we're not that far gone.