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Question regarding pilots oxygen masks?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 10:51 pm
by Unknown74
Just wondering what the position is with the RAFs Typhoon and F-35B Lightning pilots plus any other Fast Jet such as Hawk Jets with the pilots oxygen masks with all this Covid 19 stuff, do the Masks get cleaned/ washed on a regular basis or do the pilots wash and clean them themselves?
Re: Question regarding pilots oxygen masks?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 11:09 pm
by Campbell89
I may be wrong but in the case of the F-35 I think the helmets and therefore masks are bespoke to each pilot?
Re: Question regarding pilots oxygen masks?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 11:27 pm
by mhm
Correct all pilots are issued with equipment as with ppe its personal use only
Re: Question regarding pilots oxygen masks?
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 5:41 am
by NigeF-51
As I understand it, when the kit is checked post flight by the Safety Equip. staff, they are cleaned with an antiseptic wipe.
Re: Question regarding pilots oxygen masks?
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 4:00 pm
by lazybinman
NigeF-51 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 5:41 am
As I understand it, when the kit is checked post flight by the Safety Equip. staff, they are cleaned with an antiseptic wipe.
After last flight daily servicing is what we called it when I was doing it. In those days it was just distilled water. This was the early 80s though. Think they might have modernised a bit since then
