Headset for the ERJ-145

[Grabo172]

Hey all, sorry for a headset thread, but here it is.

I just got the Bose A20 and have been using it in the 145 for the last 3 months and have noticed the mic noise is crazy loud. When I go off of hot mic, it is dead quiet. I even called Bose and they sent a new headset to see if maybe the mic was defective and the noise is the same in the new one. I would think a $1000 headset would be better at canceling out wind noise than that...

It's annoying to have to go off and on hot mic all the time because the noise is so loud in the mic.

So what TSO'd headsets have you all found to work best in the 145?

 

[Roger Roger]

Lol that airliners still don’t have a squelch for the intercom.

 

[Cessnaflyer]

Is there a gain adjustment on the microphone? A cursory search shows that a lot of people have similar problems with that headset.

 

[jtrain609]

I couldn't hear anything you typed after flying through 145 for a few years.

I used a Telex 750 and ear plugs, personally.

 

[BobDDuck]

Lol that airliners still don’t have a squelch for the intercom.

That's an FAA thing related to CVR rules.

 

[bimmerphile]

I haven't flown with one quiet headset in the 145. The bose are very loud in my CAs when the other pilot doesn't turn off the hot mic.
Just be a decent human and use the switch, it's a damn turboprop windshield grudgingly shoved into the flight levels at (the low end of) transonic speed

 

[Grabo172]

Lol that airliners still don’t have a squelch for the intercom.

That's an FAA thing related to CVR rules.

Still... it is crazy that we can't have it.

 

[Grabo172]

I haven't flown with one quiet headset in the 145. The bose are very loud in my CAs when the other pilot doesn't turn off the hot mic.
Just be a decent human and use the switch, it's a damn turboprop windshield grudgingly shoved into the flight levels at (the low end of) transonic speed

I've been turning it off... but wondered if there was a better option. I often forget and start talking with it off, then roll my eyes and turn the mic back on.

 

[bimmerphile]

I've been turning it off... but wondered if there was a better option. I often forget and start talking with it off, then roll my eyes and turn the mic back on.

Yeah, it sucks. You can find a quiet mic headset but it still won't change the fact that the other pilot still needs to move the switch or have a quiet headset for your hearing to benefit.

 

[Roger Roger]

That's an FAA thing related to CVR rules.

Ill be danged, nobody ever explained that to me. Sort of makes sense I guess.

 

[launchpad]

https://www.oregonaero.com/headset-kits/headset-upgrade-kit-83006bx

Get the mic muff... Killed the noise dramatically on a pair of cheap headsets when I used them in GA airplanes...

 

[Grabo172]

Going to give that Mic Muff a try. Thanks!

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Lol that airliners still don’t have a squelch for the intercom.

That's an FAA thing related to CVR rules.

-sigh-

In other news, it's not 1955 anymore. Except according to the FAA.

'Course, shouting over the wind noise instead of speaking quietly over flight interphone works too.

 

[Alchemy]

I used a David Clark H20-10 for my 7 year sentence in the E145. Our company kept cheapest DC's in the airplane, but the mic on the H20-10 was actually quite good and I didn't mind lugging it around. Then again we had paper charts back then and I was carrying a 30 pound flight kit anyway, so what's another few pounds.

 

[Grabo172]

Thought I’d give an update on the mic muff...

Works awesomely! Nice and quiet now. Blocks the wind noise well and no effect on voice transmission.