Once you’ve made sure that you’ve got the best fit of the unit on your head – minor grumble, the headband slide adjustment on our example was a little hard to get moving, but that did mean it didn’t shift once set – it really is throw-it-on-your-head easy to use. I got to fly twenty hours with the Zulu 3 on a recent trip to the States. Lightspeed’s latest Zulu 3 headset with a host of improvements over the Zulu 2. The Zulu 2 has been around for six years now, so Lightspeed has taken the chance to add some improvements. It’s fair to say that Lightspeed’s Zulu 2 is one of the most popular ANR headsets among pilots – it’s good value and well put together so you see plenty of the model around. However, it’s difficult to make a light aircraft cabin really quiet without using materials that tend to add weight, or switching the fuel off… Luckily, even a basic passive headset is a good solution, and one with active noise reduction (ANR) is even better. Back in 2002, NASA published a report into GA cabin noise which recorded maximum sound levels of between 105 and 109dB in a Cessna 182.īearing in mind that fifteen minutes is considered the maximum time it’s permissible to be exposed to 100dB before you start to get hearing damage, it’s easy to see how pilots who flew during the sixties and seventies, with just a cabin speaker and a microphone, are now paying the price. There’s no escaping the fact that your typical General Aviation aircraft is a noisy
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