Bad pilot etiquette?

In the ATC side, it's seriously gross when some co-worker greases up the keyboard/trackball with their unwashed greasy hands. Leaving a slimy residue on everything, ugh..that's why there are bleach wipes in the room. When I was at the center we had a lady sit at the sector and shove Doritos down her gullet...:ooh:
 
bucksmith said:
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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This is an ongoing issue where I work. The goal is to hand the airplane back to the crew with them not finding any evidence we've worked on it, with the exception of fixing squawks. Many times the inspections and or ops checks we have to carry out require us to get deep into the buttonology in the cockpit and a newer mechanic just doesn't know anything but how to follow the MX procedure, they'll just leave the cockpit with the switches and buttons in the last configuration the procedure told them to. We try to have an experienced person go in and do a sweep of the cockpit to make sure nothing is out of whack, but we aren't pilots and don't necessarily know how the crew prefers the cockpit to be set up. I can only assure you that we do try. Cleaners should never be allowed in the cockpit, I say that from experience dealing with some issues caused by them. It's your office, IMHO it's your responsibility to keep it clean.
 
Derg said:
Like the good Dr. Forred would always say, "You're just smearing the germs for the most part"
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1000x this. You guys have heard me tell this story in the past.

You want to kill something? Make up a spritz bottle of 70/30 isopropyl alcohol/water. Get stuff WET with it. Let it sit for 2 minutes, and then we'll talk.

Alcohol wipe thingies can't even clean up an dirty look.
 
Ozelot said:
In the ATC side, it's seriously gross when some co-worker greases up the keyboard/trackball with their unwashed greasy hands. Leaving a slimy residue on everything, ugh..that's why there are bleach wipes in the room. When I was at the center we had a lady sit at the sector and shove Doritos down her gullet...:ooh:
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Or when they leave greasy fingerprints on the strips so you can't write on them
 
Sometimes we fly from places that are dusty, and we have large canopies that sit open all day. One day, the maintainers, instead of wiping the screen, put a big set of boobs on one display and a dong on the other. I don't think this was meant to endure all the way through the daily/turnaround inspection, but it did. The CO of the squadron was next to fly the airplane. Life didn't go very well for the maintainers who were supposed to have done the work over the next few days.

If I'm leaving the jet to somebody else with no turnaround inspection in between I'll usually do/leave something sophomoric and inappropriate for the next guy. It's the professional thing to do.
 
BigZ said:
No Wi-Fi internets on your planes?


I kid... I kid....
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Funny you should say that. Owner went out of his way to avoid having it installed. That's his 2 hours of disconnected time. I do miss weather and texting (official purposes that is)
I also miss racing my buddies on flight aware. Good times.
 
Roger Roger said:
Don’t get me wrong, I still brush my teeth with dirty wheel bearing grease and do my hair with used engine oil, but the med stuff gives me the heebie-jeebies (at least for now, check back in 6 months and it’ll probably be “meh, it’s just a little puke”).
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Fatherhood....

Doing the diapers is like... the 9th nastiest thing I’ve had to do


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Lawman said:
Fatherhood....

Doing the diapers is like... the 9th nastiest thing I’ve had to do


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Ok, picture this. Dad is home with an almost-3-year-old, Mom is 3000 miles away with the baby visiting Mom’s sister. Almost-3-year-old (not potty trained yet) wakes up at 0300 barfing her guts out with what winds up being the start of 4 days of puking and diarrhea.
 
Roger Roger said:
Ok, picture this. Dad is home with an almost-3-year-old, Mom is 3000 miles away with the baby visiting Mom’s sister. Almost-3-year-old (not potty trained yet) wakes up at 0300 barfing her guts out with what winds up being the start of 4 days of puking and diarrhea.
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Went to a birthday party for somebody’s kid.... Somebody at that party brought a kid who was patient zero...

My wife, myself, and the 11 month old all got violently sick (in ways Ive only gotten overseas) within about 3 hours of each other and stayed that way for ~ 2 days.

By the end of it we bought new bedding for like everything and just threw away the futon cushion we had moved to so we could position evenly between 2 bathrooms. 48 hours Everybody was laying on whatever towels we had on that cushion and it was like a 2 hour cycle at most on any cloth surface on that cushion.

I think out of the 6-7 families at the party it was only like 1 that made it out alive.



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Eating a Five Guys burger with a crap ton of onions and mustard before handing the airplane to the next crew. That smell stays around for a long time.
 
Lawman said:
Fatherhood....

Doing the diapers is like... the 9th nastiest thing I’ve had to do


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Picture a set of triplets who removed their poopy diapers and literally threw them into the ceiling fan. My wife just took them out of the room, closed the door and told me to go clean it up the next day as I came off a trip. I would’ve rather cleaned up a triple homicide scene that that hazmat zone I walked into.
 
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