Originally Posted by
Rolf
Well, one fine winter night I was post flighting the Jalopy and what do I see? The ramper is using the gear pin to hack blue ice off the lav truck hose
So yeah, I use white latex gloves when I got to touch those things.
About the "taking pictures while your wife is getting attacked by a cheetah" story, how long do you stay in the dog house for something like that?
I wear white latex gloves also when it is the first flight of the day and I have to remove the gear pins. Some of them can be caked in grease and who knows what. It's easier to don the gloves than scrub the grease off my hands in the lav. However, I think SWA may be one of the few airlines that uses the gear pins every night.