Originally Posted by
aeropix
At the risk of thread drift, I'm curious why the A380 whose flight deck is known to be very quiet, require noise cancelling headsets and it seems to be an "Air Safety" event when one is not found,
Yet, on the famously noisy Tractor flight deck, there are rarely noice cancelling headsets, and yet there are never any ASR from the Boeing side for this matter.
Not trying to start a flame-war of A vs. B, I'm just honestly curious about this seemingly ironic matter, the quiet airplane gets the noise cancelling?
The majority of 777s have no interphone system fitted(somebody thought it was cool to fly around like John Wayne did with just one headset used to listen to ATC).
The Company should first find a few bucks to retrofit the whole fleet with hot mic feature.