Newbie at NJA Question

[bosdrx]

So what about headsets?

So I was thinking today about eventually trading in my Lightspeed 30-3G's for the Mach 1 when I head to training in October. What do most people use? Does the company supply you with headsets? Are the airplanes equipped? Are you even allowed/able to bring your own? Just curious. Thanks!

Matt

 

[theskyking]

The airplanes have the Telex 750's in them. You can use what you want. A lot of people use the Bose QC2's with the U fly Mike set up. Great in the plane and great on the airlining you do.

 

[CA1900]

So I was thinking today about eventually trading in my Lightspeed 30-3G's for the Mach 1 when I head to training in October. What do most people use? Does the company supply you with headsets? Are the airplanes equipped? Are you even allowed/able to bring your own?

Of course you can bring your own!

The airplanes are all supplied with headsets. Not sure about other fleets, but most of the Excels have Telex 750 or 850 (ANR) models on board. I personally can't stand the 750 -- it makes my ears hurt, and the Excel cockpit's noisy enough that I have to wear earplugs under it and crank the volume up until the intercom squeals when I turn my head. Ugh. The 850 wasn't bad, but not many of the planes have them.

So I went looking for one to bring with me. (I also have a set of big Lightspeeds [20-3G], but they'd be a little ridiculous in our cockpits!) I ended up purchasing the setup Skyking mentioned: The Bose QuietComfort 2[/quote] headphones that I purchased from Crutchfield, paired with the [url=http://www.uflymike.com/]UFlyMike adapter that turns it into an aviation headset. It's a great setup, compact enough to slip into my laptop bag for the airline rides. Since we don't carry flight cases here (no jepps, so no need), I definitely wanted something compact. This fits the bill nicely.


Hope that helps.

 

[bosdrx]

Thanks guys. Thats kinda what I thought, but ya know, it never hurts to ask. BTW I love that there are no flight bags/jepps. I'm assuming that this must also mean that you're not doing a new revision every two weeks. That may be one of my least favorite parts of my job right now.

 

[gunfyter]

Also, this is the kind of thing our union message board is great for. Not sure if you've gone through indoc or not, but the union presentation will discuss how to get online there. Drop me a PM if you need info on it.

Also, ask about the NEW HIRE MENTOR program.... I understand you can be assigned a mentor who can answer many questions for you.

 

[100fly]

What kind of headsets does the CE-680 have?

 

[Captain Morgan]

Don't worry about it 100fly, it uses telepathy. :laugh:

 

[Guitar Guy]

Thanks guys. Thats kinda what I thought, but ya know, it never hurts to ask. BTW I love that there are no flight bags/jepps. I'm assuming that this must also mean that you're not doing a new revision every two weeks. That may be one of my least favorite parts of my job right now.

Sorry to mildly disappoint you, but we do Q-service updates for the domestic U.S. on the 2-week update cycle. Updates for other regions come out on a 28-day cycle or as needed.

I wish we had EFB's for that stuff as well as the FOM...

 

[CA1900]

As I'm sure you know, inserting a Q-service update is far less work than doing a conventional update.

Besides, with about five times as many pilots as airplanes (with Jepp libraries), the odds are much better that you won't have to do an update because another crew beat you to it. When you carry your own set, there's pretty much a 100% chance that you'll be the guy doing it.


As for the FOM, I couldn't agree more. I'd much rather just carry an electronic copy.

 

[Guitar Guy]

Besides, with about five times as many pilots as airplanes (with Jepp libraries), the odds are much better that you won't have to do an update because another crew beat you to it. When you carry your own set, there's pretty much a 100% chance that you'll be the guy doing it.

Actually, it seems like whether or not one does the updates has a lot to do with start days. The Q-service updates seem to fall in the middle of my tours, so I end up doing a lot of them. But they aren't usually too time-consuming.

 

[Fozzy]

We at NJA live in the stone age. So very sad that even new airplanes coming on line do not have EFB's.

 

[Guitar Guy]

Look at how long it took them to design a simple winter jacket. It's no surprise that EFB's are naught but a dream.

 

[2dumb2drive]

As I'm sure you know, inserting a Q-service update is far less work than doing a conventional update.

what is a Q-service?

 

[NJA bound]

new complete set of charts every 16 weeks, with updates every 2 weeks. dont update anything unless you fly to that field, pretty simple, sometimes you never update at all just throw out all the charts and get the new set every 4 months.

 

[learflyer]

what is a Q-service?

In a nutshell, instead of swapping out a few pages here and there, and driving yourself nuts, they send you the whole section instead of only what has to be swapped out.