Dirty Flight Decks
Commercial aircraft flight decks tend to be terribly dirty. This dirt consists of dust, mainly deed skin falling from pilots in a particularly dry environment, spilt drinks, soiled seat cushions and various things that have been dropped over the years and not recovered and in some cases are rotting. It is not unusual to find water bottles etc behind rudder pedals that not only add to a dirty flight deck but also contribute a flight safety risk.
I feel that flight decks are “our office in the sky” as well as “our canteen”. We work and eat in them for long periods of time, in fact longer than would normally be permissible under current EU Working Time Directives and I am suggesting that our well qualified engineering colleagues phase-in a periodic specialised deep clean of our work place.
No other groups of workers in an office or factory environment would put up with conditions similar to what the pilots have to every working day, so for health and safety reasons, many of which are legal requirements, it is suggested that airline management insist on periodic engineering specialised deep cleansing of flight decks.
Does anyone know of any company that do phase-in periodic deep cleaning of their flight decks?