Headset Recommendation
#13
Originally Posted by Pilotpip
Lucky snots. Congradulations on the graduation (assume you got your BS?).
For some reason, ANR headsets give me a headache so I'll stick with my trusty DC 13.4s
For some reason, ANR headsets give me a headache so I'll stick with my trusty DC 13.4s
#15
($995 / 12) on your credit or debit card each month, effectively a no-interest loan, to get a shiny new Bose Aviation X. Best headset you'll find anywhere.
(That's $82.92 if you don't have your calculator handy. )
(That's $82.92 if you don't have your calculator handy. )
#16
Originally Posted by Jonesthepilot
Good thing about DCs are anything goes wrong, all you got to do is send them to Wooster, MA and they will fix it for free
I hope no one takes this advice! You will never see them again.
Wooster is in Ohio. Worcester . . is in Taxachusetts . . the County Seat. There’s an airport there, so this is important.
Here is everything you ever wanted to know about “Wuss-tah”, Mass.
Sure people from Worcester talk funny. People from Mississippi talk funny. So do Minnesotans, Oregonians and New Yorkers. Especially New Yorkers. The bigger question is why does Worcester have a lake, a village, college and an avenue named Quinsigamond, but they're scattered around the city like leaves in the fall?
No, it doesn't make sense unless you know that the community was called Quinsigamond long before it was called Worcester. It's an Indian word that means: "Boy, do these folks talk strange." If you're a newcomer and you find the local language throws you for a loop, we've assembled a handy guide. Before we get to that, let's start with how not to pronounce Worcester.
Don't make it three syllables. Just forget that first E is even there. And never, never, never put an H in the middle of Worcester. People will make fun of you. So, how do you correctly pronounce Worcester to make people think you've been shopping at Spag's on Saturdays and going to Water Street on Sunday mornings your whole life?
You've dropped the first E and boiled it down to two syllables. Now eliminate both R's. While you're at it, better get that C out of there. Make the remaining sort of an AH and turn the O into a U. Wuss-tah. It doesn't rhyme with sister or rooster. The first syllable rhymes with puss. Go ahead and say it. Wuss-tah. Now you're almost ready to walk into a spa in the village and order a regular coffee and maybe a couple of tonics and a grinder or club. One more thing. Always include your state as part of your hometown, as in: "I'm from Wusstahmass." Confused? The following guide to the peculiarities of the Central MA dialect should help:
Boston Turnpike - Route 9 east of Worcester
Bubblah - Water fountain
Candlepin Bowlin' - Invented in Worcester in 1880 by Justin P. White, and a far superior game to Ten Pin, a form of bowling known locally simply as "big balls."
Cellah - Basement
Club sandwich - Italian sub
Dine-ah - Good food cheap, but it's only a diner if it was made by Worcester Lunch Car Co.
Dinnah - Lunch
Elastic - Rubber band
Frappe - Ice cream, milk and flavored syrup. (A milkshake leaves out the ice cream.)
Grindah - Sub sandwich
Jimmies - Chocolate sprinkles
The Lake - Quinsigamond
Package Store - Place to buy beer and liquor Packy - Shorthand for package store
Parlor - Living room
Piazza - Porch
Pricker, Pricker Bush - A burr or other vegetation that grows on a bush and sticks to your clothing. Some use the same word for any bush with thorns.
The Pike - The Mass. Pike
Regular coffee - Fully caffeinated with cream and sugar.
Spa - A corner store with soda fountain
Square - All rotaries are squares, but not all squares are rotaries
Three-deckah - Not a sandwich, but a house with three floors, big apartments, hundreds of stairs and nowhere close to enough parking.
Tonic - Soda (of any flavor or brand)
Wormtown - Slang for Worcester
How to say it:
Auburn - AW-bin
Aunt - AHnt
Berlin - BURL-in
Clinton - Klint'n
Ha'past - 30 minutes after the hour, as in: "we're gonna eat lunch at ha'past 12"
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaugg- Wep-stah Lake
Leicester - Less-tah
Leominster - Lemon-stah
Millbury - Mill-bree
New York - NooYawk (Rhymes with talk)
Northboro - Nohth-bro (also, West-bro, South-bro and Marl-bro)
Petersham - Peters-am
Pizza - Pete-zer
Shrewsbury - SHOES-bree
Southbridge - Sowt-bridge
Tatnuck - Tatnick
Westminster - West-minstah
#18
Get ANR
If I can give you one piece of advice, it will be to get the ANR. Definately worth every last penny. You can by a midrange headset for $150, or a good ANR headset for $350-400. If you plan to be flying for several years to come, ANR's will wind up costing you like $1 more a flight. It is so worth it.
If you are unsure, take a flight with a cheap $100 headset, and then fly the next flight with the ANR. You will never go back to passive headsets.
As far as brand, I have heard good things about Lightspeed. When I bought by ANR, it was between Pilot and Lightspeed. If you want some info on Pilot, they are real good headsets. As far as Bose, I would not recommend paying $1000 for them. Just not worth it. When did my CFI last summer, I borrowed a pair of Bose from someone for 2 weeks. Then I flew after that with my normal ANR's, and there is no difference.
Be sure and get the ANR's!
If you are unsure, take a flight with a cheap $100 headset, and then fly the next flight with the ANR. You will never go back to passive headsets.
As far as brand, I have heard good things about Lightspeed. When I bought by ANR, it was between Pilot and Lightspeed. If you want some info on Pilot, they are real good headsets. As far as Bose, I would not recommend paying $1000 for them. Just not worth it. When did my CFI last summer, I borrowed a pair of Bose from someone for 2 weeks. Then I flew after that with my normal ANR's, and there is no difference.
Be sure and get the ANR's!
#19
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2006
Posts: 408
Has anyone ever tried these
http://www.lightspeedaviation.com/products-Mach1.asp
or these?
http://www.lightspeedaviation.com/productsL1.asp
It seems to me that if they work as advertised, they should be nothing short of revolutionary. Why would ANYONE go back to big, uncomfortable, restrictive, not to mention goofy-looking, ear muff type headsets?
http://www.lightspeedaviation.com/products-Mach1.asp
or these?
http://www.lightspeedaviation.com/productsL1.asp
It seems to me that if they work as advertised, they should be nothing short of revolutionary. Why would ANYONE go back to big, uncomfortable, restrictive, not to mention goofy-looking, ear muff type headsets?
#20
Originally Posted by Uncle Bose
Why would ANYONE go back to big, uncomfortable, restrictive, not to mention goofy-looking, ear muff type headsets?
Bose are lightweight, extremely comfortable, and very effective at cancelling noise. You will hear radio transmissions more clearly, hear voices in the cockpit more clearly, protect your hearing, and reduce the fatigue you'd otherwise suffer without the headset.
$82.72 per month for 12 months is a tiny price to pay for the lifetime benefit you will gain. Remember, hearing loss is irreversible, and cumulative.
- The truth only hurts if it should -
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