Originally Posted by
B2N2
So during critical phases of flight you don’t need to look away and fiddle with switches to talk to the other dude or dudette.
At my previous employer I flew -300’s and -400’s and we had as many different audio panel setups as we had tail numbers.
Rubber bands to the rescue.
’Captain, would you care for a used rubber’
Absolutely - and on the old non EFIS 737s if the interphone switch was latched then the control wheel RT switch wouldn’t work - a rubber band worked marvellously there, as it enabled momentary use of RT then back to interphone although of course the RMP was outboard.
I am perhaps showing my age, but there was of course the classic Boeing setup of a telex headset with only one earpiece on, which garuantees hearing problems in later life.