Originally Posted by
CLazarus
Things won’t change overnight. When I’m PF I’ve started setting up for hot mic a la the Guppy below 180. If asked, I just say I want to make sure the CA hears me. First time I did it the CA was impressed at how clear the comms were and asked how to set it up. Now I’m trying to flip one CA at a time. As more Guppy CAs take refuge in the 777 I think you’ll get an increasingly agreeable audience. I also go on ANR headset whenever I’m listening to foreign controllers, when the other pilot trying to get by just on speaker gets embarrassed with being repeatedly helped out by me with calls and freq changes… I figure he/she might give ANR a go. Flew a transcon the other day with the CA up on hot mic the whole way, it was a treat.
I’m noticing the same on my fleet. Every CA I asked in the past year or so to go on the intercom is either happy someone else wants to or somewhat begrudgingly does it. Yet to have one refuse.
it’s a big culture shift and getting a hearing aid is not going to fix it. We all need to protect our hearing and our certificates, the only time I’ve ever had communication issues in the flight deck were before I started pushing for intercom usage.