Originally Posted by
bagpipe
One trick flying with passengers is to give yourself the brief with your mike well off to the side so they can't hear you
Most pilots talk to themselves much of the time - OK, not all of us recite every FREDA, but plenty do, as discussed here in the past - so I just find it easier to say to passengers "not to take any notice of me talking to myself, most pilots do this, it's just that you can't hear them in an airliner".