headset/legacies

[flyguy81]

what type headsets do y'all use in the boeing aircraft? use a ANR now and the thing is like a visegrip on my skull. was looking at something like clarity aloft but don't want to drop 700 on a headset if it won't work when I leave (whenever y'all start hiring again)

 

[jetdawg]

I have a telex 5/5 goes for a couple hundred but it is light and worth it. b4 that had a plantronics like it also but telex has a better mic I think. if you do get a job in the south you must know the plural of y'all and that is all y'all

 

[Larcifer]

Bose QC2 with adapter from advertiser on this site. It is absolutely awesome. Big bennie is you can use your headset normally just take out the adapter and plug in the ipod for the commute All for the low price of 535ish

 

[IAHERJ]

Planetronics with a earmold. Don't worry about purchasing the planetronics if you work at CAL.

 

[PositiveRate]

Platronics (company provided) with ear mold (75$) and earplug in other ear - works great, last long time

 

[Whine Lover]

Here's what I have used for 20 years of Airline flying. It works great, is inexpensive, can be worn for hour after hour and you never even know it's there.

It's light weight, noise reducing, perfectly clear...and I have used the same one for 20 years. (With two cord replacements.)

Get a Telex PEV-77 and pull both the plastic ear loop and ear plug off of it. Then get a pair of those stupid foam ear plugs that are shaped like little tittys and put a hole down the center with a coat hanger or something else heated on your stove.

Stretch the earpiece over the little nub on the PEV-77 and VOILA'!

You have a custom fit to your ear everytime, and never even feel it. When the little ear piece gets dirty clean it with alcohol and a q-tip. Replace it when it get's dirty and/or starts losing it's memory/shaping ability.

Of course you just use the hand Mic...Old School Baby.

Best piece of cockpit audio equipment I've ever owned.


YKMKR

 

[CA1900]

What do you use for a boom microphone with the PEV-77?

 

[regionalcap]

I still use a Telex 750. You don't need an expensive headset. I usually take the headset off at 18,000 anyway.

 

[PCL_128]

Here's what I have used for 20 years of Airline flying. It works great, is inexpensive, can be worn for hour after hour and you never even know it's there.

It's light weight, noise reducing, perfectly clear...and I have used the same one for 20 years. (With two cord replacements.)

Get a Telex PEV-77 and pull both the plastic ear loop and ear plug off of it. Then get a pair of those stupid foam ear plugs that are shaped like little tittys and put a hole down the center with a coat hanger or something else heated on your stove.

Stretch the earpiece over the little nub on the PEV-77 and VOILA'!

You have a custom fit to your ear everytime, and never even feel it. When the little ear piece gets dirty clean it with alcohol and a q-tip. Replace it when it get's dirty and/or starts losing it's memory/shaping ability.

Of course you just use the hand Mic...Old School Baby.

Best piece of cockpit audio equipment I've ever owned.


YKMKR

Not quite legal unless you're flying a DC-9 or 727. Below 180, you've gotta have a boom mic.

 

[Whine Lover]

Show me that in the Regs. again. I can never find it.

YKMKR

 

[PCL_128]

Far 121.359

 

[Whine Lover]

Got it. Thanks.

YKMKR

 

[PCL_128]

There are some planes you don't need it, though. The 717 doesn't have a hot mic system that feeds into the CVR, so technically, I don't think we have to use the boom mic according to the regs.

 

[Whine Lover]

That is also my understanding.

And, that is (one of ) the answer (s) I have received from several FAA types ( with very lengthy explanations of the Reg. you cited ).

Their explanation is also related to the gobbledy-gook in FAR 25.1457 which talks about how CVR's are installed and/or wired.

One example I've been given ( and seen installed) being some B-757's that were manufactured and delivered with a Boom Mic as an integral (hot wired) part of the A/C and mounted on the window side pillars.

YKMKR

 

[Long-Gonner]

Telex 850.........bought it on Ebay. Great below 18,000. Above 18, speakers and ear plugs

 

[whatitdoing?]

I prefer the David Clarks 10.4's. Sure, the Captains look at me weird, but I like them. I also use a notepad with velcro around my leg to write my clearances.....................

 

[AWACoff]

At CAL (on the 737, don't know about the rest of the fleet), the headsets are in the airplane and the company provides us with the earplug. You don't need to buy a headset. It works fine for me and I flew turboprops for years.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

There are some planes you don't need it, though. The 717 doesn't have a hot mic system that feeds into the CVR, so technically, I don't think we have to use the boom mic according to the regs.

What does the Elton John FOM/AFM say?

 

[Mach 80]

Telex 850. A good degree of ANR but needs no batteries.

 

[PCL_128]

What does the Elton John FOM/AFM say?

Notice that I said "according to the regs." The FOM still requires it, if I remember right, but who listens to that thing anyway? Now, go find a headset adapter for your french airplane.