You prove they contracted it in the cockpit and not at a restaurant or bar then we'll talk.

I am concerned for the safety of the hundred or so paying passengers in the back. If the other pilot is concerned about someone at home that pilot is welcome to pass on the flight and a reserve pilot can take over. I stated that in my first post on the subject. No harm no foul.

Do we have to have our mask on while we are in our hotel room on a layover? I’m not sure so I have just been leaving mine on.

Only in the car when driving alone and talking on your handheld cell phone.

The mask? Absolutely not. But once you’ve flown the Atlantic just once in a poopy suit, helmet, harness, water wings, etc., sitting on top a survival kit and ejection seat, having to hear people grouse about wearing a cloth mask (Or even headphones)on a big wide comfortable flight deck gets a little tedious. I’m sure that goes double for the Pacific too, even island hopping. I wouldn’t wear a cloth mask up front either, UNLESS THE OTHER GUY/GAL ASKED ME TOO, because I think the risk is minimal. But if it’s going to make them paranoid for me to not wear a mask, I’d certainly rather wear one then distract the other person, because that actually might be a safety issue.

I tried the cloth mask with another pilot. Neither of us could communicate effectively without yelling and the controllers were having problems understanding us too. Gave it a shot, it didn't work. Maybe others have developed a way to speak that is mask friendly. I can't even understand my own son half the time when he has one on leaving school or at a store/restaurant.

im pretty sure it wouldn’t take too much time to pull your mask off in an emergency. Nothing is that time critical where the half second it takes to pull off your mask is going to cause a crash.

you can just pull it off I during the startle factor of the emergency you are encountering. They’ve pretty much eliminated memory items for some fleets and gone to a QRC. It takes longer to reach for and pull out the QRC than it does to take the mask off.

So do you wear a headset? Or are you reading lips? I’m a big headset fan personally because I saw way too many senior officers needing hearing aids. And yeah, with the right mask a boom mike works fine.

Using Captain's authority to force your FO to wear a mask?






Ouch

Right? Imagine the god complex you’d need to try to exercise your “captains authority” to prohibit the FO from doing something that the company explicitly allows them to do.