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Regarding: how you leave the flight deck for the next pilot.

Level 1: you're actively screwing over the next pilot if you don't do these:
1) remove all garbage.
2) write up any existing maintenance issues and report to mx (including low oil, hydraulic fluid, or any broken headsets).
3) If it's summer time, put up the shades.
4) remove the headset cord, wrap it up, and put it away.

Level 2: you should be doing these, but most people don't:
1) If there is no ATIS card packet, leave one. Carry an extra one and leave one if your airplane runs out.
2) fold up and nearly put away the window shades, don't leave them under a window or partially posted up.
3) put up the window shades if it is even moderately warm out.

Level 3: this is actively helping the next pilot.
1) during the flight, get the station report as PM. On the blank atis card, write the next flight's number, and put the destination and departure time at the top. After doing the parking check, out in the next flight number in your clock and on the ATC/TCAS page.
2) leave a sanicomm for the next guy if there aren't any in the flight deck.
3) put pitch trim at 8, leave the initialization screen up on the ACARS.

Side notes:

1) why the ******* is the side tone knob turned up on most airplanes? There is zero reason to turn this up at all.
2) do not use the "waste bin" in the flight deck. Nobody cleans them out. You are screwing over other pilots by leaving trash in the flight deck.
3) anyone who disagrees with this: consider this as professionalism. Keep the flight deck a sacred space. Help your fellow pilots.

DirkDiggler

I prefer level 0:
1) Teabag the oxygen mask
2) leave a big pile of crumbs on the seat
3) Leave the ATIS cardboard with no paper and throw away / pocket the rest
4) touch all the screens to get as many fingerprints as possible
5) loosen the seatbelts to their max extensibility and jam them under the seat
6) tighten the sun visor with pliers so no man can undo it with his fingers
7) take all the ear foams off the company headsets and scatter them around the cockpit
8) crumple the sun shades into little balls and step on them a few times, then stow away

Now I don’t do those things, but I swear someone does because I encounter at least one of those any time I work.

WhatsV1

How do you know someone tea bagged your O2 mask

DirkDiggler

I know it because that person was me! Hahahaha

falconkidding

Power down and turn off avionics masters. Or dim all the screens. Leave seat all the way up.

WhatsV1

Lmao too funny

SonicFlyer

In the summer the boys gotta get some air somehow! And the O2 mask is the perfect size and shape for the job.

YANXJTPilot

One thing hardly anyone does is:

Shut the cockpit door in the summer before leaving the plane.

I can promise you if the air is on and the door is closed, it's almost certainly cooler. If the air is working of course. Probably even if it's marginal.

Somewhat like you do at home. Turn on the A/C, close the door.

watch

Great answer. Never thought to do this and it's not difficult at all.

PositRate

I like a filthy cockpit. Found half a cheeseburger and a sani wipe behind the rudder petals last week..... winning.