![]() Because of this, I needed a very comfortable headset that would let me focus all my attention on flying. Learning to fly, it’s incredibly important that you can hear and communicate with your instructor clearly, and once you begin communicating over the radio with towers or other pilots, clarity in communication can be a life or death situation. As experienced pilots know, pilot error is far and away the highest cause of crashes and accidents, so it’s essential to respect the dangers of the situation and give your plane, and the whole flight experience, the attention it deserves. Every second you spend yanking off your headset to readjust the band or fiddle with the microphone is an opportunity for disaster to strike. Without a comfortable and reliable headset, your attention is pulled away from your instruments and windows, which increases the dangers of piloting an aircraft. Comfort means safety for pilotsįinding a comfortable pair of recreation headphones is difficult, but finding an aviation headset you can wear for hours comfortably is not only hard, it’s expensive and very important. Though I’m not personally a fan of the appearance of the DC Pro-X aviation headset, it is very reminiscent of classic aviators wearing leather caps and bomber jackets, which definitely has its appeal. The Bose A20’s will spoil you, because the cords are built inside the structure of the headset band, giving it a very sleek, modern appearance. The speakers themselves were the dentist-office-green I associate with old fashioned aviation equipment, and had a slightly busier appearance, due to the cords and wires being exposed (as is most common). The DC Pro-X also had individually adjustable speaker volume, and I found the control module to be less bulky and slightly lighter than the Bose A20’s, though the Bose definitely had the aesthetic and ergonomic advantage. I found I had to remove the DC Pro-X Aviation Headset to shorten the band, whereas on the Bose A20 headset I was able to do it while wearing it, which was very convenient and allowed me to focus more on the plane and the world around it. The band on the headset was more difficult to me to adjust, but it fit excellently once it did. ![]() The audio-dampening ability worked fairly well, as I had to pull the speaker away from my ear to hear the changes in engine pitch as my boss and piloting mentor Bryan Stewart instructed me to listen as we adjusted the throttle, among other things, but the ambient plane noises seemed generally louder. The comfort was superior, the price is more affordable ($695, a whole $400 cheaper), but the audio couldn’t hold a flame to Bose. ![]() However, I did notice the audio cutting out when I turned my head to look out over Donner Lake when we flew over, and the microphone didn’t stay as securely pressed against my mouth as the Bose A20’s did. I was happily surprised to find that the on-ear headset was actually morecomfortable for my ear piercings/sunglasses combination than the ear cupping cushions. First thoughts on the DC Pro-X Aviation Headset:įor comparisons sake, I went on another flight two days later to more accurately compare the Bose A20 Aviation Headset to its competition, and was able to enjoy the David Clark Pro-X Aviation Headset. Every other experience I’ve had in a small plane, conversation was kept short and sweet simply due to the fact hearing each other is difficult, knowing that you’re being heard correctly is impossible, and hearing your own voice amplified in your ears is distracting as well, but with the Bose A20’s, my instructor and I were able to talk about everything under the sun with ease. My flight instructor coincidentally also had a pair of Bose A20’s, and we were able to chat as clearly and easily as we could in a vacant park on a quiet day, sitting right next to each other. This headset felt like I was wearing marshmallows over my ears that gave me super-hearing. ![]() ![]() First thoughts on the Bose A20 Aviation Headset: Lake Tahoe and the mountains ringing the basin from the air. To this day, I’ve only worn four: a really, very uncomfortable and cheap pair that garbled communication because of all of the static, a decent pair that functioned but were fairly uncomfortable that I had to continually adjust, a pair of David Clark Pro-X‘s (which I will talk about later), and very recently, I was given the opportunity to try the famed Bose A20 Aviation Headset. I took the headset with me on my second flight lesson, in which we flew over Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains for a couple hours in a Cessna 172m. Bose is Protecting Ears and Blowing Minds With the A20 Aviation HeadsetĪs a student pilot, I have very limited experience with aviation headsets. ![]()
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