Sound Advice
Headbands bent out of shape, microphones that don’t sit and stay anymore, cords cracking from overuse, deformed ear seals that carve small valleys in the side of your head, poor fit that makes them slide around, and just occasionally, falling apart because there’s one or two screws loose. In truth, there is not a lot to recommend a well-worn headset lent to a student by a flying school.
There are enough distractions in the cockpit already; the last thing low-time students need is loaner headsets giving them grief.
“If you go and buy an expensive headset and then find it slides off your head, you've just wasted your money”
It builds a very good case for students investing in their own headset early in their careers, but it comes at a time when the cost of simply being in aviation is mind-blowing. Every flight is dual, theory books and courses aren’t cheap and there’s fee upon fee for all those CASA exams that need to be passed. Shelling out more for your own headset when someone will lend you one is not always the best strategy.
At least that’s the way it has always been. Things are changing now, and more and more students are accepting the cost of a headset as just being another price penalty for getting
