My first civilian job after leaving US Naval Aviation was a loadmaster for Airborne Express YS-11 cargo aircraft in 1988. I LOVE the older cockpit layout in this plane. It had a HUGE (by US standards) and brightly colored meatball or artificial horizon gauge on either side. This and all the other steam powered gauges really lit up the cockpit in the dark before dawn. It was a fantastic aircraft, reliable, efficient and those turboprop engines just purr along so nicely. I miss working in this plane! Very nice video.
Superb video. I have seen some Asian pilots, not just Japanese, wear these white gloves, I don't know their value, perhaps a mark of "rank" or a symbol of honor and respect. Anyway this is much more hygienic than our pilots dripping sweat on the controls.
bombcat91 In Asia it's a general attribute of someone who is in an exposed public position, or is in charge or responsible for something. Those gloves are worn by police and firemen and other members of the public services, train and bus drivers, pilots etc. but are also used as a disposable hand protection, eg. by construction workers or school students when they're cleaning their schools ( It's normal, in Japan at least, and teaches responsibility for public property and equipment)
