Using quick don mask in sims (now)....

Itchy

Itchy

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The sim centers are all in states that have big spikes in cases. Are you comfortable putting on that mask for the high altitude drills? They give you these wipes to clean them out, but they are not virus killing wipes, they seem more appropriate to cleaning your hands after an order of Buffalo wings. Only 5 people used the mask so far today. Game?
 
Itchy said:
The sim centers are all in states that have big spikes in cases. Are you comfortable putting on that mask for the high altitude drills? They give you these wipes to clean them out, but they are not virus killing wipes, they seem more appropriate to cleaning your hands after an order of Buffalo wings. Only 5 people used the mask so far today. Game?
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If they're using the 65% alcohol or better I think they are virus killing... ?

If you're sick you shouldn't have come in! :) just kidding.
 
averettpilot said:
I have never once used those masks even without a pandemic. F that noise, people are nasty!
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Lol, I use them, just wipe it out ahead of time and after.

The feds proved to us we were training guys to not put on their masks by not putting the masks on in training. The techs sterilize every sim and then the pilots sterilize before every sim.

At SJI i only did the rapid once and threw it on, my reoccurring we didn't have that emmergency.

The FAA concern is, many who have a depressurization put on the mask and THEN wake up after that lit fuse of unconsciousness has burned down.
 
At FSI last week it was a demo prior to sim one. Yank it out of the mount, inflate, stretch over head (but don’t bring mask fo face), remove. Headsets were not even installed in the sim.

And based on how bad the sim reeked of Clorox I’d say the decon is going fine.
 
Just finished my type two weeks ago at FSI. They had an example EROS were we could demonstrate putting it on, and were not required to put it on in the sim if we did not want to. Sim tech between people wiped the examples EROS down 2-3 times before my training partner tried it on. With rotating in/out of sim noticed sim tech sterilized the entire cockpit. Overall fairly impressed how much cleaning they were doing, but wonder what it was like prior to this..
 
In my current life I spend as much time at the instructor console as I do in the seat. I said for a long time before this that every communicable disease I've seen rip through a squadron has come from the simulator. Fortunately this time around the very old men who are civilian sim instructors are pretty leery. Every touchable surface is crushed with disinfectant. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it works.
 
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