20 Feb 98 17:00, Jay Hanig wrote to Robert Linenweber:
 RL>> Allow me to ask you a question.  Was the gosport of old a one way
 RL>> device (instructor talking and student listening) or was there a sound
 RL>> connection in both directions?
 JH> Since when did a student EVER have anything worthwhile to say?  
 JH> My understanding was that it was most definitely a one way device.
 JH> Sometimes the message would get stuck in the tube and the instructor 
would
 JH> have to hold his end out into the slipstream to be sure the student was
 JH> getting the message.
I always wondered why my primary instructor wore a whistle around his neck 
during flights.  One very dense day, I found out!!!
Hal
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