" gdbutler at bellsouth.net wrote in message
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I am a student pilot, and am about to buy a headset. I am thinking about
probably getting a David Clark, they seem to be pretty good quality,
however, i don't want to spend more on my headset than on my training.
Anyone have any suggestions as to good brands that are not outrageoulsy
expensive. Thanks


In 7 years and 1600 hours, my 13.4's have been squashed, dropped, rained on.
They've been exposed to twenty below winters and 105+ F summers. They've
spent 3 seasons getting knocked around in banner planes, down low in salt
air over the beach. They show some wear, scuffs and such from general
abuse, and some slight surface rust on one of the metal straps, but they've
never missed a beat, and by my own admission, they were treated with
anything but kid gloves.

As far as comfort and noise attenuation? Well, I've got a fairly large
head, and I never had a problem with them. Some weekends we'd spend 11+
hours in the plane, a day. I'm talking a Super Cub running open stacks and
stripped bare; no doors, windows, mufflers, nothing. Now my rear end and
back might have been sore, and my legs stiff, and I might have needed a shoe
horn to get out at the end of the day. But I never noticed the headset.
(BTW- a set of cloth ear seal covers do WONDERS for comfort; earmuffs on
cold days, and they wisk the sweat away on hot ones)