I've had a hoodlamb since the early '90s, and I love it. It doesn't fit on my
DC headset (don't recall the number, but it is the one with a wide plastic
toothed thing instead of stirrups). When I go for training, I just pull out one
of the better pairs of sigtronics S20's and use them with the Hoodlamb. Figure
I can put up with the headset for the couple of hours of training a year. I got
the white hoodlamb, didn't care for the black one, got too dark inside. I also
cut the horns off the bottom of the view port, it was too hard to read charts
with them there.

"Gary L. Drescher" wrote:

That looks like a cool device. Thanks for posting the pointer!

I've been dissatisfied with Foggles too, both because of the discomfort of
putting the stems under the headset (I wear contacts instead of glasses, and
use Shields sunglasses that have a string instead of stems, so only Foggles
present this problem for me), and also because they don't really limit my
outside vision adequately.

I'd been meaning to try to find or devise some alternative, but so far this
year I've been able to stay current just by shooting approaches in benign
IFR, so I've kind of forgotten about the foggles.

(Sorry, no idea about the widget catalog.)

--Gary

"Snowbird" wrote in message
om...
OK, I'd like to tap into the ingenuity of the group here.

We have Lightspeed headsets. We use Foggles for simulated
instrument training.

I don't like it, because the earpieces of the Foggles create
a sound gap.

I saw a cool product for IFR training which clipped onto
the band of a headset with tiny little bands, and flipped
up and down to limit one's view or move out of the way.
It's called the Hood Lamb (for example:
http://www.pilotshop-usa.com/store/i...PARTMENT_ID=78

Unfortunately, it only fits on headsets with steel bands,
like DC's or Sigtronics.

It looked like something a clever chap ought to be able
to duplicate with a bit of ingenuity, given the requisite
parts -- some kind of swivel, and some kind of clamp which
would fit the wider plastic band of the Lightspeed headsets.

There is a clever chap in our house.

Can anyone suggest a source of little clamps and the like?
(ie a widget catalog?)

Thanks!
Sydney

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