[ElAurens]

Blackdog_kt, most of my flight was in the waist gunner's position, no windows open anywhere on the aircraft, and you could not hear yourself think. If I wanted to communicate with one of the other passengers in the compartment, we would have to take our ear protection off and literally scream at one another to be heard, and we were only sitting a couple feet apart. Having the side window in the cockpit slid back would not change anything.

Please don't let this become another of those topics where a simmer sitting at his computer in his comfortable envirionment "probably" knows better than someone who has actually been there and done it. We have enough of that nonsense when it comes to FM debates, don't we?