Protect your Hearing
You may well have raised the subject before but it needs to be taken on board. I flew Gazelles, Lynx, Puma and Puma L2. My career was stopped short at 25 years at the 11,500hr point for other reasons. I now find that there is a permanent whine in my left ear(not the wife she sleeps on my right). It is bearable but could have been avoided, I feel, if I had bothered to spend a few pounds to get a decent headset instead of using the standard headsets that were issued on the North Sea. Your hearing is precious and I spent a fortune on a decent Audio system for my car to then realise it sounded the same as the cheap system. So be warned you young un's look after your hearing.
Last edited by jbrereton; 2nd Mar 2005 at 12:13.