With modern tech being what it is, why do the captain/crew on new airplanes still sound like they’re eating the microphone?
In: Engineering
Getting new things put into planes is a costly and lengthy procedure. Someone asked why Air Traffic communications sound like garbage and why they don’t just go for modern equipment, and the answer is it has to work all the time, no exceptions.
If a standard “sounds like crap” microphone just works and is reliable, there’s no reason to spend millions of dollars investigating, testing and fitting better equipment, just so the crew saying “ready for takeoff” is a little clearer.
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