Originally Posted by
horrido27
It is kinda nuts that in this day and age, we're flying around aircraft that don't have some sort of standard internal hot mic for comm.
Between aircraft that have very loud internal cockpit noise, and either low talkers or hard of hearing pilots.. I'm still amazed that that FAA, the Union and the company haven't stepped in.
Then again, we have a fleet of 4 types that have different audio control panels and hell, even 2 different types of clocks?!
What year is it again?!
Motch
Especially when a company like JetBlue has noise cancelling Sennheiser headsets in their E190's and Telex in their Airbus for pilots to use. Seems like the union could step in and claim this is a safety issue. I was dumbfounded when I came here and was told you had to purchase your own headset or use the non noise cancelling ear dick.