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PA, it seems it takes all sorts in this business
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Notsofantastic, I don't think I have made any howlers other than that I have dared to suggest that senior pilots who propound the 'you must buy your own to be sure' idea are completely wrong to do so in my view. I don't know exactly how close your view is to that, but I can see you don't agree with the spanners idea. Buy your own and a spare from an approved list of the best and bill the company - sure, I'd see that as ok. In a big company I would have thought that was best organised by the company themselves. As for buying such a thing on eBay, you'd have to be damned sure of the source?
If you are a pilot supplied through an agency then I suppose the law becomes less distinct as to whose duty it is to provide the correct gear.
Sorry about the unclear question about use of cockpit headsets on the apron as 'make do defenders'. I was already thinking about extra noisy types like F50 with short distances between open cockpit windows and main engines when I asked. I had assumed (perhaps wrongly) that F50 pilots would wear full cupped headsets even in the cockpit? I was thinking what then are they supposed to wear on the apron? The same cupped headset perhaps? I have rarely seen a pilot on an apron wearing any protection. Almost all I see are finger in the ear merchants at best.
Obviously I'd have to agree you'd look pretty silly prancing around on the apron in your new Telex 850s
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As for also telling me that it's ok for passengers to be left for undefined periods kicking their heels at the back of 737s with the APU running, we'll have to differ on that one
. I guess one man's ok is another's cumulative noise-induced deafness. I'm the one that wear's ear plugs at pop concerts and noisy London musicals - probably full cupped ear defenders would have been better at some of those, but as you say, 'common sense' (or do we mean common pride?) often dictates otherwise if you plan to be part of something
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I think it was Guppy who suggested that just plugging in and trying a headset to test it was good enough i.e. he found it appropriate to ridicule any suggestion that more elaborate testing might be necessary or that communications headsets should be subject to any rigorous log of serviceability. Fair enough. His imagination and undoubted experience just haven't been stretched as far as a rogue headset (re-)discovered at an awkward enough moment for it to be a big deal.
So what else is 'incorrect',
Notso? I can see some are having trouble marrying my assertions about HS and Workers Compensation laws to the headset question in their jobs, is that what you call 'incorrect'? If so, what exactly is incorrect about it?
PS $100 off Ebay ?? That's two of you now that have said you got Telex from there? Does your company really just let you plug in something you got off Ebay? I appreciate you gentlemen wouldn't consciously plug in anything you weren't sure about, but isn't this just a further example of degradation of what by now should be a standardised norm?