Bad pilot etiquette?

DE727UPS said:
Lets turn the thread around. I laugh under my breath at the clean freaks. They sit down in the seat and immediately open up a Sani-com wipe and go to town on the throttles, yoke, O2 mask, and everything else possibly touched by their predecessor. What did we do before Sani-coms? Did pilots die from thrust level contact induced hepatitis or something? I just think it's silly.....
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Like the good Dr. Forred would always say, "You're just smearing the germs for the most part"
 
I roll with the germophobes the same way I roll with the slobs. Water off a duck's back. But at least the germophobes aren't messing up anyone ELSE's day.
 
So many prima donnas here. You're just driving a filthy bus in the sky. OCD pilots are my biggest pet peeve.
 
DE727UPS said:
Lets turn the thread around. I laugh under my breath at the clean freaks. They sit down in the seat and immediately open up a Sani-com wipe and go to town on the throttles, yoke, O2 mask, and everything else possibly touched by their predecessor. What did we do before Sani-coms? Did pilots die from thrust level contact induced hepatitis or something? I just think it's silly.....
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This.

I only wipe something down if it’s sticky.
 
trafficinsight said:
Don't forget stealing all the pens.

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My cockpit is littered with pens. I take every single one that isn't chained down.
The FBI would simply have to climb up front to find out every FBO I've been to in the last six months. (Minus the good ones the mechanic stole!)
 
Derg said:
Like the good Dr. Forred would always say, "You're just smearing the germs for the most part"
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I only marginally do it for the germs.

Mostly it's because the person before me left donut glaze on the yoke.

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It’s not the germs, it’s the greasy hands that were touching French fries and are now touching the thrust levers, etc.

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bucksmith said:
My cockpit is littered with pens. I take every single one that isn't chained down.
The FBI would simply have to climb up front to find out every FBO I've been to in the last six months. (Minus the good ones the mechanic stole!)
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I fly four airplanes at this time, so it's reasonably easy to keep them stocked with the hotel pens. Also happy to report other guys caught up too - planes finally have pens 99% of the time.
The arrangement with the maintenance is that a pen is only fair game if found on the floor.
Fascinating fact of the day - detailing people will lick the business jet clean inside and out, but won't touch the cockpit. Like won't even vacuum the cracker crumbs (where the hell do those damn things come from???)
 
I flew with a jackass that chewed tobacco and when he wasn't chewing, he was eating. The smell of the tobacco makes me want to hurl just thinking about it. However, the worst part is that he REFUSED to shut off his on-side hot mike. For hours I had to listen to the smacking and the slirping and the spitting.....really a distraction.
 
dustoff17 said:
I flew with a jackass that chewed tobacco and when he wasn't chewing, he was eating. The smell of the tobacco makes me want to hurl just thinking about it. However, the worst part is that he REFUSED to shut off his on-side hot mike. For hours I had to listen to the smacking and the slirping and the spitting.....really a distraction.
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Did you escalate to the CP? What was the company policy?
 
NickH said:
Did you escalate to the CP? What was the company policy?
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Wish it were that easy. This was on the military side...it came down to a discussion that went along these lines:
"I'm the PC, you need to knock that off"
"Oh, yeah, well I'm the XO, deal with it"
 
dustoff17 said:
I flew with a jackass that chewed tobacco and when he wasn't chewing, he was eating. The smell of the tobacco makes me want to hurl just thinking about it. However, the worst part is that he REFUSED to shut off his on-side hot mike. For hours I had to listen to the smacking and the slirping and the spitting.....really a distraction.
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I just deselect the intercom or turn down the volume. Then I get to annoy him with having him have to repeat everything....
 
I'm a cleaner. Not due to germaphobe behavior, but the fact the yoke is almost always a bit grimey. Sweaty hands most likely. I'll also take a moment post-flight to wipe off the suction cup marks off the windscreen. I tried a couple of times to wipe the screen of the GPS but it's been touched so much the thin layer of fingerprints is now permanent. A lot of people think a Garmin 430 is touchscreen.
 
Alchemy said:
If I show up to a freighter and there's even a seat with a cushion I'm happy. It's going to be dirty. It's going to be ugly. It's going to have absorbed 1,000,000 Transaero or TWA captain farts.
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FIFY, Ex-AeroFlot airplanes would be to nice for our company to buy.
 
BigZ said:
I fly four airplanes at this time, so it's reasonably easy to keep them stocked with the hotel pens. Also happy to report other guys caught up too - planes finally have pens 99% of the time.
The arrangement with the maintenance is that a pen is only fair game if found on the floor.
Fascinating fact of the day - detailing people will lick the business jet clean inside and out, but won't touch the cockpit. Like won't even vacuum the cracker crumbs (where the hell do those damn things come from???)
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Eh, I don't want them up in the cockpit anyway. Bad enough trained technicians can't put switches back where they found them...
Besides, gives me something to do at 450.
 
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