Slip and Turn, please stop spouting this stuff you are coming out with in this thread- every post is bringing out howlers.
This thread is disgraceful reading from some of you. I take it many of you are in Europe?
There are laws protecting you. Your employer is obliged to provide your Personal Protection Equipment without charge, and replace it immediately without charge if it is damaged or unfit for use, and it must naturally be fit for purpose when it is originally provided.
You don't buy it yourself. You don't accept substandard equipment that compromises your safety by hurting your precious aviator's head like hell. You insist on the best compatible with your type. You are making a rod for everybody's backs if you do otherwise
What are you? Men or mice?
You argue yourselves silly about rosters, pay rates and pensions and then you let your employers fart about with essential personal safety equipment?
This is a primarily a pilot website. What stuff you are coming out with is incorrect.....every post. On ultra noist types, ANR headsets will probably be provided, they don't have to be. Most, possibly all, pilots, will be issued ear defenders. ANR headsets don't work outside the aircraft. There's nothing wrong with waiting at the stairs of a B737 with APU running. One wouldn't want to do it under the tail of a 1-11 with an APU running above your head.
Can you try and leave out the humour or irony? It doesn't come across well if you wish to be involved in a sensible discussion.