headset question

[Tri-holer]

Anaconda

It appears you have derailed my attempt to use my earpiece, at least below FL180. Ah well.

I am puzzled though. How was I able to use it for 4 years as an FE and FO flying large turbine aircraft equipped with a CVR? And how do other 121 carriers get away with it?

 

[Hovernut]

Bose!

I got the Bose X while flight instructing, and plan on using them in the CL-65. My DCs were bulletproof, but the Bose are much more comfortable and the ANR works quite a bit better. But, you had better have a spare battery! Once it quits, you're $crewed due to the poor passive NR.

Now, what about the darned flashlight? My sister's b/f is a STL cop and has a superduper bright rechargable light that's quite a bit smaller and lighter that the old "beater" two cells.

 

[PositiveRate]

Sennheiser HMEC25-KAS

Sennheiser HMEC 25-KAS - Any other opinions on this one? I'm looking at the stereo model...does it even matter? How are these headsets when the ANR is turned off? From the pictures I've seen, the headset looks small enough and at 5.9 oz, they can't be too big.

I like the look of the Telex airman 750 one sided headset...I remember flying with a Capt in the ATR who used these and would make me turn my overhead speaker way up to balance the sound. Seemed like a lot of fuss to me. Is the general consensus that the 2-sided headset is superior?

 

[rightrudder]

Every 121 operator i've worked at has required the boom mic below 18,000, reference the Part 121 reg.

RR

 

[EOpilot]

Looks like all the 121 operators you worked for used aircraft that weren't designed during the Eisenhower administration. I think only NASA was using boom mics in 1965.

I had a boom mic, but I always had one wire hanging down unplugged because there was nowhere to put it.

I had always thought that if the aircraft was certified and manufactured without a boom mic jack it was exempt. More conjecture than fact. I'd just like to believe I was legal.