Headset. Do you have your own?
Our airline has stopped issuing pilots with headsets and has started fitting them in the flight deck, plus a spare. They also issue Sanicom wipes to keep them clean. Admittedly it's not a very nice headset. It has those horrible sweat making plastic ear pads and isn't exactly lightweight.
This seams to have started some consternation amongst some pilots. When some of them arrive on board and take a look at what the company have provided they complain, "Do they expect me to wear THAT on my head for the next nine hours?"
My reply as an engineer was "Why don't you buy your own!" As engineers we have to buy all our tools and they cost a pretty penny. We are also allowed a small amount of tax relief too. A nice lightweight Sennheiser active noise reduction headset costs about £500 for a good one. And at least you know where it's been and are less likely to contract some communicable disease from it!
"Five hundred quid, you've got to be joking! I'm not spending that!"
And this came from a skipper wearing a three thousand pound Breitling on his wrist!