Japanese pilot wear gloves
04-13-2020, 06:19 AM
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Japanese pilot wear gloves
So yeah the white gloves in the cockpit. I’m thinking about it. Mostly to stop me from touching my own face.
My buddy at Kalitta says they got a used 747 from JAL and the cockpit was spotless and clean. All the grime around the usual knobs wasn’t there. He thinks it’s the white gloves...
My buddy at Kalitta says they got a used 747 from JAL and the cockpit was spotless and clean. All the grime around the usual knobs wasn’t there. He thinks it’s the white gloves...
04-13-2020, 06:45 AM
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Originally Posted by GrumpyCaptain
So yeah the white gloves in the cockpit. I’m thinking about it. Mostly to stop me from touching my own face.
My buddy at Kalitta says they got a used 747 from JAL and the cockpit was spotless and clean. All the grime around the usual knobs wasn’t there. He thinks it’s the white gloves...
My buddy at Kalitta says they got a used 747 from JAL and the cockpit was spotless and clean. All the grime around the usual knobs wasn’t there. He thinks it’s the white gloves...
04-13-2020, 06:45 AM
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Originally Posted by GrumpyCaptain
So yeah the white gloves in the cockpit. I’m thinking about it. Mostly to stop me from touching my own face.
My buddy at Kalitta says they got a used 747 from JAL and the cockpit was spotless and clean. All the grime around the usual knobs wasn’t there. He thinks it’s the white gloves...
My buddy at Kalitta says they got a used 747 from JAL and the cockpit was spotless and clean. All the grime around the usual knobs wasn’t there. He thinks it’s the white gloves...
The USN is no slouch on cleanliness but they make us look like poor relations in that regard.
04-13-2020, 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by GrumpyCaptain
So yeah the white gloves in the cockpit. I’m thinking about it. Mostly to stop me from touching my own face.
My buddy at Kalitta says they got a used 747 from JAL and the cockpit was spotless and clean. All the grime around the usual knobs wasn’t there. He thinks it’s the white gloves...
My buddy at Kalitta says they got a used 747 from JAL and the cockpit was spotless and clean. All the grime around the usual knobs wasn’t there. He thinks it’s the white gloves...
04-13-2020, 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by GrumpyCaptain
So yeah the white gloves in the cockpit. I’m thinking about it. Mostly to stop me from touching my own face.
My buddy at Kalitta says they got a used 747 from JAL and the cockpit was spotless and clean. All the grime around the usual knobs wasn’t there. He thinks it’s the white gloves...
My buddy at Kalitta says they got a used 747 from JAL and the cockpit was spotless and clean. All the grime around the usual knobs wasn’t there. He thinks it’s the white gloves...
04-13-2020, 08:36 AM
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I’d say it’s a combination. Your finger oils will make their way to buttons and surfaces. Oily surfaces attract dirt. If you’ve noticed leather steering wheels on used cars they are typically shiny. Most would think that it is polished from wear but the leather is actually doped with oils from hands. Its a pet peeve of mine...
Maybe I’ll start doing what my grandparents did. They had a pair of brown leather gloves in their Citroën.
Maybe I’ll start doing what my grandparents did. They had a pair of brown leather gloves in their Citroën.
04-13-2020, 10:29 AM
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Spent three years flying for the Japanese on those 747s. They were spotless, and all did wear gloves.
BUT, that was only 50 out of the 200 pilots we had; the other 150 were westerners with their gross hands all over the controls.
They did a phenomenal job of regularly cleaning the aircraft, something I REALLY with they’d do around here.
The Japanese wear white gloves to drive their own cars, they sell them in every 7-11.
That said, at TOC they come off until TOD.
BUT, that was only 50 out of the 200 pilots we had; the other 150 were westerners with their gross hands all over the controls.
They did a phenomenal job of regularly cleaning the aircraft, something I REALLY with they’d do around here.
The Japanese wear white gloves to drive their own cars, they sell them in every 7-11.
That said, at TOC they come off until TOD.
04-13-2020, 01:11 PM
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I think your white gloves would just look hella dirty after one day in the gross AF cockpits I sit in. When I was flying I sort of noticed an improvement when the Covid thing started to make everyone actually clean up before they started working. It actually wasn't completely slovenly in the cockpit.
I used to fly 91 in the same large cabin jet for a few years. That was white glove clean. Because we weren't slobs.
I used to fly 91 in the same large cabin jet for a few years. That was white glove clean. Because we weren't slobs.
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