Originally Posted by
Ascend Charlie
And there is a story of an airborne Mirage pilot being able to remove the seat harness, parachute harness, Mae West, G-suit, unzip one-piece flying suit and wriggle it down, and cr@p in one of his flying gloves. (He finished as a 2-star.)
Same detail for at least one GR4 pilot and one nav (excepting the 2-star bit, and on separate occasions, I hasten to add) during those long Middle Eastern patrol missions. The pilot learned the wrong lesson from it: subsequently equipping himself with toilet paper and a spare helmet bag lined with a plastic bag, at least things were marginally easier (and cleaner) for him on the repeat performance a few months later...