Originally Posted by Speed Select

I do the same in every situation except at cruise: walk around, sleeping on break, and even riding in back… always wear hearing protection.

When we go without headsets at cruise and the other pilot puts in ear plugs, they crank up the speaker volume and shout at me for the next few hours. So like I said, I guess that’s what I’m going to do now, put in ear plugs and increase the volume of everything else in the cockpit except the wind noise.