Originally Posted by Brace
You really think I'm going to be sitting in (no kidding) earblowing Indi - kgggggrrrsshhhh - disco mode for the next 10 minutes so you can hear stuff from the back? And I wonder if I'm supposed to do the same thing for the same reasons... but do I really want his mike to feedback like crazy on his first report...? No. So I leave it, volumes are good to work in.
Not as silly as it sounds. If I'm the only pilot at the controls whilst Bloggs goes out for a pool-drop or whatever, I take my headset off, speaker on. Quicker to get my O2 mask on that way. Or perhaps Capt Bloggs is just helping you, after a depressurisation, to hear ATC if you forget to wind up the speaker.