<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by chexfan:
I've never been personally instructed to take off normal headsets (i.e. the free ones) for take off or landing.</font>
Several times I've been instructed to take off the free headsets prior to landing as the FAs were coming down the aisle collecting them.
As a channel-9 junkie, I don't like this much, but I've never argued and always resolved it by pulling my own personal (non-fancy, non-NC) headphones out of my carry on. Nobody has ever told me to take those off.