I've seen and heard the reply enough that it must be true and I won't argue
it.

Purely from my own personal experience though.....
I fly with a passive Flightcom 5DX and love it. I haven't had the
headclamping problems some have mentioned about it. My wife does not want
me to replace her Telex Echelon 100 set, but she did let me put the gel ear
seals on it. The Telex does come with the "cam" system for easy adjustments
of tension for varying head sizes. The Telex set also folds in on itself
for easy and compact storage.

A year and a half ago I got the Flightcoms for $169 and they're still around
that. The Telex set is under $150 at most online pilot shops.
--
Chris Ehlbeck, PPASEL
"It's a license to learn, have fun and buy really expensive hamburgers."

"Teacherjh" wrote in message
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I am a student pilot, and am about to buy a headset.

I would buy an inexpensive headset that has decent passive attenuation.
Your
FBO probably rents headsets at something like $5 a day. Buying one of
them
outright (new) would be about $100. Just do that and take your training.
By
the time you have your license, you'll have a better idea of what you
want, and
then buy that. Keep the old one for your passenger.

Jose

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