Question re DC PRO X Headsets
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Question re DC PRO X Headsets
Last year I splashed out and purchased a David Clarke PRO X headset. I've found it to be very light and comfortable with good noise attenuation. It's very small size is great in small cockpits.
It has one problem that is annoying and I'm wondering if any Pruners out there have also experienced it and have solved it. Sometimes when I encounter turbulence (usually down low near a circuit while talking to Tower or another aircraft ) the headset comes off my head. It has very low clamping pressure for comfort but losing them half way through tower instructions is disconcerting to say the least.
I've thought of attaching the headset to an ANZAC slouch hat and then cutting off the brim. I also thought of putting a chin strap on them but I feel I would just look like a very ugly Girl Guide.
If anyone has come up with better solutions please let me know.
Cheers RA
It has one problem that is annoying and I'm wondering if any Pruners out there have also experienced it and have solved it. Sometimes when I encounter turbulence (usually down low near a circuit while talking to Tower or another aircraft ) the headset comes off my head. It has very low clamping pressure for comfort but losing them half way through tower instructions is disconcerting to say the least.
I've thought of attaching the headset to an ANZAC slouch hat and then cutting off the brim. I also thought of putting a chin strap on them but I feel I would just look like a very ugly Girl Guide.
If anyone has come up with better solutions please let me know.
Cheers RA
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Have never used the one's you purchased but in the mil with what was goddam awful headsets, I used a piece of elastic on hooks that went behind my head and under that little bump at the base of the skull.
One end had went through hook and back to a Buckle or such like that allowed one to pull one end of the elastic to tighten it once on the head and so increase the pressure between the two ear pieces.
It worked and meant hands free for what I was doing at the time !
Hope that helps.
Have never used the one's you purchased but in the mil with what was goddam awful headsets, I used a piece of elastic on hooks that went behind my head and under that little bump at the base of the skull.
One end had went through hook and back to a Buckle or such like that allowed one to pull one end of the elastic to tighten it once on the head and so increase the pressure between the two ear pieces.
It worked and meant hands free for what I was doing at the time !
Hope that helps.
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Mrs RA would like me to look like Roger Federer.
Don't know about the bandanna. If I flew in the States I'd probably have Homeland Security all over me accusing me of being a Mexican drug runner.
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Sounds like a good idea. I'll give it a go. Thanks
Cheers RA
Mrs RA would like me to look like Roger Federer.
Don't know about the bandanna. If I flew in the States I'd probably have Homeland Security all over me accusing me of being a Mexican drug runner.500N
Sounds like a good idea. I'll give it a go. Thanks
Cheers RA
