Originally Posted by
Checklist Charlie
Then when they get to my age they will need to wear hearing aids because they didn't protect their hearing when they were young.
Decent hearing protection wasn't about when I started. We used hand held mic's, and cockpit speakers. The noise was deafening, literally.
CC
You folks were truly resilient back then. Every so often the rechargeable batteries of my A20 die on me in flight, a sign that I should replace them. I find it painful already without noise cancellation – and that's still with headset on!