Aircraft without intercoms and us semi-deaf folks
08-16-2007, 04:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Sr. Barco
The 737 does have a pilot to pilot intercom. Both pilots have to select flight interphone. You talk to each other either by pressing the transmit switch down on the yolk (the same way you talk to the ground crew) or press the ptt on the audio selector panel towards the cabin. This has been a HUGE controversy at Southwest as pilots have been using rubber bands to hold that switch in place thus creating a hot interphone. I'll withhold my comments on that but I've heard using this intercom with a noise cancelling headset makes the day SO nice. 
To the original question. Wearing earplugs under a lightweight Telex type of headset is the way to go if you don't have a Bose or Sennheiser or some other million dollar headset.
S.B.
To the original question. Wearing earplugs under a lightweight Telex type of headset is the way to go if you don't have a Bose or Sennheiser or some other million dollar headset.
S.B.
True, Boeings do have this. We don't use it (except to use it during O2 mask comm and pilot to ground comm). I meant they do not have the "traditional" intercom that RJ's and GA aircraft have that is in use always and you just speak to be heard.
