The first serious purchase a pilot makes while learning to fly is a headset. Of all the equipment used in aviation, the lowly headset is the most used item. But, many pilots-especially those from earlier eras when headsets were nonexistent-don't give more than a passing thought to headsets and grab whichever one the FBO desk throws them. Even pilots who are long past primary training will often surprise me with a cobbled-together headset, complete with duct tape, missing windscreen, resoldered wires and horrendous sound. What should be the most important cockpit instrument sometimes becomes the least considered.
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