Headsets

We got a little wild here, I guess perhaps over did it you might say, but having no experience with them we went for broke and bought the bells and whistles in this department.

We went with the David Clark units because they were top notch equipment according to all the big guys we know that fly for a living here in town.  We bought the models with a panel module that also have noise canceling built in and an extra amount of it which you can turn on and off at will with a toggle switch.  We're told that in a heli you don't want to miss all the noise because being able to hear it may be what saves you in the event of something going wrong with the ship, humm define all the noise lol.  Our response was to buy something overbuilt with the capability to turn it off if we didn't like it.  It is easier to turn it off than to wish we had bought it and wired it in in the first place. 

One good thing about these headsets is that each ear piece has an individual volume control, in case your left ear doesn't hear as good as your right ear like me.  In all of our other experiences we started off low end and ended up upgrading again and again until we could have bought the top of the line stuff at least two times so we took the plunge.

The down side to the units we got is

that they don't have the same type plugs on them our buddy's helis do so we won't be taking our personal headsets up with us in their ships and they will not fit the Ameri-King ELT unit we have either.  The cords aren't coiled like all the helis have in em we've seen but to get those type models the David Clark sets have a really tall headset we didn't feel we had room for in our small cockpit, I'm rubbing the ceiling at times now and they would have added another inch or better to the overall height so we got what we felt would fit and gave up the cords.

 Wiring these babies was a bugger in that the way we built our ship

it required us to have about 8 serial connector plugs so that we could disassemble the ship without having to go thru a major undertaking, I had two wires on opposite poles and it took me forever to find that mistake and fix it with everything connected.

We also made a box to mount the units in to keep them out of the weather on the backside of seatback.

It came from good ole radio shack. After we started flying we got to check them out in real time and there wonderful units.  There to good, they muff just about everything as far as bass sounds go. When were decending we can bearly hear the whoop-whoop noise from the blades and if you turn on the noise canseling switch all you can hear is the tapping of the lifters on the engine.

The final word is we like em but at the same time we'd like to hear a bit more bass sound then they allow.

Hell if I know,  but heres a picture of it lol

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