So Whudj'all get for Christmas?

Got a Zulu from my wife. After 3.5 hours yesterday and today (IFR, most
of it in the sunshine on top of really bad murk, I might add) I am
extremely happy with them.

You suck! (And I mean that in a good way... :-)

I'll be waiting for the "long-term PIREPs" with baited breath. My
next chance to actually try/buy a pair will be (maybe) Sun N Fun or
(for sure) OSH '08...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay,

I'll be waiting for the "long-term PIREPs" with baited breath.


That might be detrimental to your health ;-)

We had a Bose in the cockpit, too, and one thing I noticed was that
Lightspeed has completely hidden the wires going from earcup to earcup.
Nice touch! The construction is very sturdy, I expect it to hold up
well. That said, I never had any problems with my 20k, so I do seem to
treat my headsets well.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

I'll be waiting for the "long-term PIREPs" with baited breath.

That might be detrimental to your health ;-)

Ahem. Right. Obviously that should be "with bated breath".

Dang chell specker...

;-)

Broken Lightspeeds -- I *did* receive an off-group email from a
former frequent poster who recently bought the Zulu -- and had it go
Tango-Uniform on him within a week (bad ANR). As always, Lightspeed's
customer service was marvelous, and they replaced it instantly -- but
it's kinda scary that this would happen to their flagship model.

I'm willing to write it off to "new model difficulties" until I hear
of more troubles, however.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay,

but
it's kinda scary that this would happen to their flagship model.


Considering the amount of people on here and the likelyhood that
someone with problems will speak up is so much higher than someone
being satisfied, you'll get a bias towards problems online.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Jay Honeck wrote:
For the plane, of course... ;-)

It was a year for tools, for me. Mary gave me a way cool mini-tool
kit, in a quality carrying case that folds down into a neat 8" x 12"
package. It's full of screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers, a hammer --
all the stuff you might need in a pinch. Along with my socket set,
we'll have everything we might need on board for an emergency
repair...

For the hangar I got a nice rolling tool box, with locking drawers and
plenty of storage capacity. Our hangar workbench has slowly grown
into a mess over the years, and this will help to organize everything.

Was Santa good to you? Get any cool gadgets?

A 1 HP air compressor and Gann's "Fate is the Hunter." I just finished
reading the book and must admit that after reading all of the hype about
it over the years, I was underwhelmed. It had some interesting stories
about the pioneering days of air transport, but I found the writing
style hard to read and follow at times and the book left out a lot of
information or made you run to the end notes to find things. Why
couldn't he just say he flew for American and then later Matson rather
than saying it was an "airline founded by a steamship company" and leave
you to go figure out who it was? Or what is so hard about including the
two actresses names in the text rather than at the end of the book in
the notes section?

Not a bad book, but definitely didn't live up to my expectations.

Matt