Lightspeed Zulu (Manufacturer) - Arrived on 12. February 2011

I am keen to get my own headset.  The ones provided by the club are not that bad, but many people use them and since I have to get the microphone very close to my lips, I am thinking that having my own would be nicer.  The club headsets are also not active noise canceling.  With my fledgeling  radio practice any scrap of info I can tease from the controller transmission is a bonus, and I hope that this noise canceling feature would get the aircraft and engine noises out of the way.

    The headset also has some other features that could useful, such as a bluetooth interface to connect with an iPhone (and other phones I assume), good materials that are supposed to have better passive noise canceling too and real good music quality.

    At all online stores I looked, the headset is sold for USD 850, which is cheaper than the BOSE A20, for example.  As far as I can tell the headset is not sold in Singapore.

Lightspeed Zulu ANR Headset (Straight Cord, Twin Plug, Portable) - Sporty's Pilot Shop

Sporty’s SP-400 Handheld NAV/COM (Manufacturer) -  Arrived 3/9/11

Every pilot is supposed to have a handheld transceiver in case the mounted device in the aircraft is giving up.  There are three manufacturers of handheld NAV/COM transceivers as far as I can tell: Sporty’s, Icom and Vertex Standard.

    Sporty’s has the SP-400, Icom offers the IC-A24 and Vertex the Spirit VXA-710.  It seems that the SP-400 has the widest range of NAV functionalities and the biggest screen with the simplest user interface.

    I think I may go with the SP-400, even so it is less water resistant than the Vertex VXA710 and more expensive than Icon and Vertex.  I like that the SP-400 comes with AA battery packs and also rechargeable batteries (optional).

GPS Hand-held (Manufacturer) -  Wanted

Flight bag (Manufacturer) -  Wanted

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