Nick Pilotte

Talk about sad. She wasn’t the pilot either. Two planes down in less than a year, I hope they don’t get disbanded. I saw them at Oshkosh decades ago and the are still flying the same type.

Well, I have a few hours now on my Halos. Initial thoughts are pretty positive but take this as one person’s opinion. The noises you hear in a Citation (510 Mustang in my case) are very different than a piston plane. Without headphones in the front you hear a little of the whine from the small P&W 615 engines and a significant amount of wind noise around the nose. This headset works very well in a jet like this as the noise isn’t a low drone (to me) and is right at home up there. Saturday I got into a 172M for some training and at first I was like “WTH did I buy?!?!” But after my initial checks and run up, I was fine with it. The audio is very good in this headset. I could hear tower very well, the engine noise was all but a memory. My only issue was when I was on CTAF at another airport, I had some troubles hearing but I chalk that up to it being a 20 year old audio panel, radio, and unknown antennas in that plane. The Mustang was not like that. I loved wearing my normal sunglasses with these, I barely feel them on my head. I did not get any headaches like I have with other headsets, and quite honestly, I like hearing some of the engine. I still think that the Bose ANR gave me a headache for some reason. I will continue using them and let my wife try them. If she likes them I’ll get another set or she can have whatever she likes if she doesn’t. Ironically, the day I received these, a for sale post popped up on another forum for two pairs and they were listed at the same price I bought my single set for. Oh well.

My headset arrived in the mail yesterday, two days after ordering. Surprisingly I only received the email receipt no shipping info at all. I’m not posting pics because at this point everyone that has been interested has seen them. I’m flying in a Citation tonight, and a piston plane in the morning. Will give my personal pirep after the next 24 hours.

Canard-ly see it behind your plane!

St. George is awesome. I spent a week out there for business a few years ago and was amazed at how beautiful it was. Worlds different than SLC where I was the week before. It’s one of the few places I’d pick to retire to right now.

That’s a great movie clip in the OP. FYI, there is a B-36 at the museum in Dayton. And their website has 360 degree pictures of the interior. The flight engineer are has 2 seats and a lot of round gauges! https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/197636/convair-b-36j-peacemaker/ Scroll down towards the bottom to see the 360 views

@gsxrpilot, it really was your Opinion convincing me to try it. I think I’ve read every topic on MS about this headset and I liked the input. I wasn’t thrilled with the Bose A20 (actually their customer support for non-aviation products killed it for me), Lightspeed was ok, but I’m also cheap. Telex and DC looked good but I wanted to try something that would fit my sunglass habit too. I’m looking forward to trying them out.

I just pulled the trigger on Halo to replace my old Lightspeed headset. It seems to be 48 hour shipping so we will see if I get them by Friday so I can try them out Saturday morning. I hope these live up to the hype, I’m picking them because I like wearing sunglasses and never could get a good ear seal with my Oakleys. Worst case, my wife will likely wear them later because they won’t mess with her hair.

I think my wife would want to see the full expected annual budget for 5 years, know what the engine, airframe, and avionics reserves are, and precise insurance rates will be. I married an auditor, but she’s amazing.

I totally stole that for a family text. We’ve been doing a ton of cleanup outside and my wife has been amazing at helping cut brush and stacking and loading it up to haul to the back of the property for disposal.

Same here. My last flight, it was on the ATIS that frequencies were combined. I fly out of a very busy GA airport and they have been combined for the last weekends. I have seen some locals doing T&Gs and full stops at ORD too, granted, late at night, don’t know if that has been cut down or increased with all this. The only time I’ve heard of irritation locally was when MDW went non-towered for a little while.

Those aren’t privacy screens. Those are splash shields. If you need that much protection for the stall(cubicle) then you have a BIG problem. no comment on the driving except it is incredibly difficult to remember to look right then left before crossing the street over there.

Wasn’t the PT6 too passé for Tom? I think he runs a 7XXhp Walters in that monster.

Am I out of line thinking that Bob’s E might be a good fit for Clint? I think if he’s good with 9gph and 150kts that would be a low risk buy and be significantly faster than a 172 or Archer.

I think it’s pretty awesome the ANG is doing that. On Beechtalk, there was a bonanza formation that did a flyover locally, even that was impressive.

It seems this weekend was beautiful all over for flying. Both days there was a lot of activity at KDPA where I’m flying out of, and the smaller field where I was practicing CTAF radio call outs and pattern work.

Here I had to double take. I thought you just picked up a new Acclaim Ultra! She is a good looking plane! I’d say that it was worth the wait. You will get a lot of looks on the ramp.

@mooneytunes That is a good looking color combo. Looking forward to seeing the finished project!

Erik, that is just cruel..... the candle that is.

I know it’s going to be a bad day when I don’t smell my coffee when I walk out of my bedroom in the morning.

I can just imagine the transition training from a Nespresso to that. Like going from an M600 to a 421...... way more involvement in component management.

That’s a Bad A$$ machine. Do you ever get glass panel envy and wish for a data logging PID so you can track performance and address issues before you have to declare a caffeine emergency?

Thanks @carusoam for fixing my blunder...... To give details, this was an R44 that flew down to KPWK from KENW (about 15 min trip....). I am NOT a rotary wing student. A little background. My kids flew for spring break last year the first time and my son is a little timid. He didn't want to sit by the window at all on that trip. So we have a friend who has a C510...... He wanted to help my son get over his fear of heights, so for his birthday he found a helicopter school and an instructor that we scheduled to come down on his birthday (fortunately it was clear skies and low winds). This was all a surprise to my son. We went to the airport for him to climb around the plane a little, then surprised him with a helicopter landing at the FBO we were at. So he watched it, and the pilot shut down, got out, and walked up to my son. "Hey there buddy, I hear it's your birthday, would you like to come see my helicopter?" So of course, he said he did, and we walked over. The pilot showed off his craft, let the kids climb all over in it, and then he asked Gage if he wanted to sit in it while he started it. I said, "OF COURSE I DO!!!!!" well, he was talking to my son. But I got to jump in too. He helped strap the kids in, gave them headsets, and started it up. Gage liked it so the pilot asked if he would like to hover a little, so with approval from the birthday boy, he did. Then he asked Gage if we could go for a little flight, and reluctantly Gage cleared him for departure (or was that the tower giving clearance????). We took a short flight around the city, south from Wrigley, to Soldier Field, then up the lakefront to the zoo, and back west. All in, it was 30 minutes airborne but he LOVED it. Then, below that are the requisite fixed wing pictures. I'm not able qualified yet o sit left seat in that, but I am getting decent at right seat. His look of fear was actually because he thought he got caught messing with the tray table, not my hand flying..... I wasn't really inverted. And I'm guessing my attempts at getting pictures straight were futile.

In order to help with the lack of Chicago skyline pictures in a recent post, I’ll add some. First time in a helicopter (R44) for my son’s birthday. Edit: guess I’ll need to hire a hangar fairy. I thought I had this right