Originally Posted by
Atlas Shrugged
The sad thing is that most of our senior guys who need it the most, sit there with one ear cup of their $1000 Bose off their ear doing them no good at all.
You absolutely need to wear hearing protection on the 74. I wear ear plugs and use a Telex 850. Once you damage your hearing, you NEVER get it back!
The other side of the coin is the passive aggressive FO who refuses to use the intercom, so the only way to hear them is to keep one ear cup off.
I think that it is past time to label this the safety and health issue that it is. Locking interphone switches on the entire fleet, not just the -8. And everyone uses them.