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With as much reconfiguring that they have to do, I'm surprised this is the first ND I've heard of. I know an American pilot who is an FFDO. He told me that they carry their loaded H-K .40S&W in a gun bag when they are off the airplane (he calls it his "man-purse"). Once secured in the cockpit, he then holsters the pistol. If he needs to leave the cockpit for any reason, he must unholster the pistol and return it to his bag. He then re-holsters the pistol when he returns. When he lands and exits the plane, he must unholster the pistol and bag it before leaving the cockpit.

That, to me, is a lot of unnecessary handling of the pistol and is just begging for an accident to happen.