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Old 08-12-2025 | 09:00 AM
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Originally Posted by mulcher
Airplane water or ice is better than any shot they can come up with. SWA could sell it as an immunity booster. Don’t forget the rat pi55 on top of water cans. Now let’s talk about hotels.
Amen.

Guessing everyone here wipes down the cockpit and sprays Lysol all over the lav too.

I drink the coffee, touch the cans with my lips, and occasionally have ice. I am healthy as they come and rarely get sick. As I stated above, I have been drinking from Boeing Springs for over two decades and can't attribute a single illness to it. My suggestion here to everyone is to not ever work in a kitchen. You will see things....

I get it, people are gross. I just can't live my life worried about the cans and the cups. It's usually the pilots wiping everything down that are sick on a trip because of "allergies".
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Old 08-12-2025 | 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by e6bpilot
Amen.

Guessing everyone here wipes down the cockpit and sprays Lysol all over the lav too.

I drink the coffee, touch the cans with my lips, and occasionally have ice. I am healthy as they come and rarely get sick. As I stated above, I have been drinking from Boeing Springs for over two decades and can't attribute a single illness to it. My suggestion here to everyone is to not ever work in a kitchen. You will see things....

I get it, people are gross. I just can't live my life worried about the cans and the cups. It's usually the pilots wiping everything down that are sick on a trip because of "allergies".

You make a good point.

I would clean the yoke and a few switches with the headset cleaning wipes in the foil packs-but that’s about it. Carried my own headcrushers (D/C’s).


Disclaimer—I never was one of those guys, ones who would use 20 plus headset wipes to clean EVERY switch. G@ddammit Carl! Are you gonna do surgery in here? I do remember saying that before.
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Old 08-12-2025 | 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Boxhound
You make a good point.

I would clean the yoke and a few switches with the headset cleaning wipes in the foil packs-but that’s about it. Carried my own headcrushers (D/C’s).


Disclaimer—I never was one of those guys, ones who would use 20 plus headset wipes to clean EVERY switch. G@ddammit Carl! Are you gonna do surgery in here? I do remember saying that before.
at a previous company everyone got the norovirus in the span of a week. One of the worst sicknesses I ever had. Lost 15lbs in 3 days and im not fat.
since then I wipe down the high traffic areas in the box office.
does anyone else find it a little gross when you take the thrust levers from the other guy and they are all sweaty?
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Old 08-12-2025 | 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Boxhound
You make a good point.

I would clean the yoke and a few switches with the headset cleaning wipes in the foil packs-but that’s about it. Carried my own headcrushers (D/C’s).


Disclaimer—I never was one of those guys, ones who would use 20 plus headset wipes to clean EVERY switch. G@ddammit Carl! Are you gonna do surgery in here? I do remember saying that before.
During Covid I'd fly with CA's wearing masks in the cockpit and wiping down EVERYTHING. I wouldn't wipe down anything and drink straight from a can on the floor. At this point I'm pretty sure I'm immune to anything.
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Old 08-12-2025 | 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by hoover
at a previous company everyone got the norovirus in the span of a week. One of the worst sicknesses I ever had. Lost 15lbs in 3 days and im not fat.
since then I wipe down the high traffic areas in the box office.
does anyone else find it a little gross when you take the thrust levers from the other guy and they are all sweaty?
IKR?

on the other hand, when we could “legally” carry letterman tools and the like, I was a Jedi master at finding hidden pron.
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Old 08-12-2025 | 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Boxhound
IKR?

on the other hand, when we could “legally” carry letterman tools and the like, I was a Jedi master at finding hidden pron.
thats the best part about getting new used planes
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Old 08-12-2025 | 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by hoover
at a previous company everyone got the norovirus in the span of a week. One of the worst sicknesses I ever had. Lost 15lbs in 3 days and im not fat.
since then I wipe down the high traffic areas in the box office.
does anyone else find it a little gross when you take the thrust levers from the other guy and they are all sweaty?
I once lived on a ship for a very long time in a less than clean environment and somehow avoided getting the double dragon despite everybody including my roommate having it. It runs rampant through shared enclosed spaces where people are digging in their butts and not using proper hygiene. I have always been a fastidious hand washer, though, so either that saved me or I am just somehow immune. I am honestly amazed I didn't get it. I saw a lot of grown men completely laid out by it.
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Old 08-12-2025 | 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Boxhound
IKR?

on the other hand, when we could “legally” carry letterman tools and the like, I was a Jedi master at finding hidden pron.
I thought that's what the removable part of the ashtray was for. Or I guess you could use the crash axe.
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Old 08-12-2025 | 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Boxhound
IKR?

on the other hand, when we could “legally” carry letterman tools and the like, I was a Jedi master at finding hidden pron.
Until the ladies started putting play girl in the spots. I flew w lite a CA he would make collages. Thing of beauty with his scissors and tape.
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Old 08-13-2025 | 05:47 AM
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Originally Posted by mulcher
Until the ladies started putting play girl in the spots. I flew w lite a CA he would make collages. Thing of beauty with his scissors and tape.
Dude!! The girls did the same thing to us!

The SAAB had a nice removable plate under the chart holder, on the yokes. 4 Phillips head screws and you’re in. Like a Cracker Jack prize tho—you never know what you were gonna get.
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