The question came up from one of the new troops. He got the standard supervisor briefing. You know the " We do everything by the book " Speech.
So when we show up at the plane and I watch him do a safe for maintenance and electrical. He asked why he should take the covers off. If its not a step in the book
I always thought it was somewhere. But its only in the Launch and Recovery. And doing ops checks on Pitot static or Probe heat.