Pilot-USA Carbon A1 headset

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Re: Pilot-USA Carbon A1 headset

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As with all headsets, due to the subjective nature of the beast, YMMV.

As many of us do I have differing hearing loss in each ear. An interesting quirk with ALL of my headsets is that everything will be just fine normally but when I turn my head to the left, suddenly I pick up a additional somewhat obnoxious sound it my right ear only. If I press down on, the right ear cup a bit more it'll diminish, but it is still there. In the words of the old Henny Youngman, if I "don't do that" it's no issue. Turning to the right produces no such effect.

I suspect there is some wind noise present on the left front side that is prominent when turning my head to the left. (I can see daylight between the canopy and the airframe in the lower left corner alongside the instrument panel.) One of these days I'll try tracking the source of this down.
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