View Poll Results: Headset on or off in cruise flight?
I keep it on
152
63.33%
I take it off
88
36.67%
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Do you keep headsets on during cruise?
10-29-2019, 07:48 AM
#21
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2015
Posts: 711
Originally Posted by Riverside
Anything to improve your comfort in that uncomfortable plane, the better.
10-29-2019, 09:26 AM
#22
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Joined APC: Mar 2018
Posts: 1,016
Originally Posted by Pogey Bait
🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽.......👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼. “What the.....”; said the guy right prior to push.
10-29-2019, 10:04 AM
#23
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Joined APC: Apr 2019
Posts: 813
Originally Posted by Guppydriver95
Playing devil’s advocate here. Since the minitel is usually clasped to the jack ports, and the clasp has to be broken to take it down, doesn’t that lead one to believe that Boeing/united intend it to stay there? And if you use your own headset, should you not plug the minitel back in when finished, since the minitel is part of the aircraft equipment? Also, I suspect the company is not a fan of people breaking the clasp in order to plug in their personal headsets
10-29-2019, 10:17 AM
#24
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Joined APC: Jun 2017
Position: B767
Posts: 376
Originally Posted by desertFlyer2015
Works great for me in a 737
737 classic= earplugs in headset off at 18k, preferably ANR on gate to gate.
737 NG= Same as above, definitely a loud cockpit.
320/21, headset on to mid 20s.
Back on at 18k.
75/76 seems quiet enough for a PNR like the Telex 850.
I've always enjoyed the versatility of the QC25.
Please plug the company headset back in when you're done.
Hellafo.
10-29-2019, 02:18 PM
#27
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Joined APC: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,888
Originally Posted by Riverside
747-off in toc.
1. Tough enough trying to understand the controllers in East Buttsakistan with it on. Without? Very tough.
2. Noise level in some was louder than others. I’ve already lost some of my high end hearing due to engine noise, with helmets/headsets. I’d rather not lose more because once it’s gone, it’s gone.
10-29-2019, 02:49 PM
#28
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Joined APC: Dec 2012
Position: Supreme Allied Commander
Posts: 1,055
320... Bose QC25 on the whole flight. Works great, near zero clamp after 8hr block day. Using a cheapo shipset to remove at 18k or TOC is purely an ignorant cultural habit that continues due to discomfort with change and/or cheapness. Get with the times old folks 
10-29-2019, 05:42 PM
#30
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Joined APC: Mar 2006
Position: B737 Captain
Posts: 111
I wear my DC Pro-X from just before push to engine shutdown. I turn the inside ear all the way down and the outboard one almost all the way up. I fly everything from shuttle flying on the west coast to 6.5+ hour (in the winter) transcons and have never had any fatigue/clamping issues. I don't take them off when I eat, but do use the hand mic FWIW. In four years I've yet to have a CA complain about it.
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