If your shoes have thin soles and you keep your feet flat on the floor it may be an issue on 3+ hour flights.

Thick soles or keeping feet up on center console or footrests and no issues. I wear Eccos and never felt a thing.

Froze my tail off on longer flights, especially at night. No foot warmers. Mind you I tend to chill easily, but I would be up there wearing a stocking cap and have the rheostat cranked all the way up...to no avail.

Well I hope you do, we aren’t animals. What’s next, eating food off your lap like a 737 pilot? Lol

The 727 only froze you on the outboard side, so frugal F/Os would bisect a sweater vertically and wear the right half, saving the left side for when they upgraded to CA. :D

Strange, but the left side has some how shrunk....:confused:

A thin thermal base layer can help keep legs warm (silk or your favorite alternative) and wear warm socks. The side panels of the center console seem to have zero insulation and feel like they are below freezing, so that's what's freezing your feet, not the ventilation air. Keep the footwell air vents open. Even though that air is usually cool, it's better than having no above-freezing air circulating at all.

I personally usually move the seat back a bit and use the inboard footrest or put my left foot up by the rudder pedal adjustment lever. I wear the thickest socks that fit in my work shoes, and my feet (especially left foot) still get numbed from the cold on flights longer than about 2.5 hours.

Counter-intuitive, but the solution is to open all of the vents (inlcuding the "eyeball" vents above and behind the captain. Turn the heat up early, as once you get behind the "cold curve", there is no coming back.

Using the open vent method, produces flight deck temps (as shown on the lower screen) in the 86 degree range.

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I've found that even with flight deck temps up around 80, the temp down by the feet can still be near freezing due to the lack of insulation behind the panels, especially the center console. Sweating up top due to cabin temp, left foot and lower leg still frozen.

Seems like footwell heaters is an expensive way to make up for a lack of a little insulation.

In any case, the practical solution is thick socks, open up foot vents, and run the seat back so you can get feet up off the floor.

I agree 80 isn't enough... Again, with all vents open and staying ahead on the heat, the 84-86 degree range can be obtained and makes things tolerable. I believe the air circulation is the key. Once the ducts get cold, game over.

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