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Ah, PreparationsI decided that as much as I love my very comfortable Telex Air 3500 passive headsets with gel-filled ear seals, I needed some ANR ear protection. I had the Bose X suggested to me, but really did not want to spend $1000 on a headset. David Clarks are supposed to be good, but I don't really like the avocado green from the 70s (do they come in harvest gold too) that they color them with. Black is boring, and what I have now. After doing some reading, I decided to give the FlightCom Denali headset a try. I'll report back with how these work. The noise reduction capability seemed good, but I was really sold on them based on the industry divergent color (I decided on the J3 Yellow). For you non-aviation readers, the J3 is a reference to the Piper Cub, which you could get in any color you wanted as long as it was yellow.Ten days in a plane, over flying some rather rough and sparsely populated terrain, I am going to need some just in case gear and supplies. So into the baggage area of 2212R I will load up with a few essentials that I will have with me, just in case the trusty O-360 decided to become not so trusty over the Rockies, or any other number of inhospitable and remote places. I, of course, need my sectional charts - 17 of them altogether - for the trip. Along with my updated GPS database, low enroute charts in case the weather becomes less than cooperative for sight seeing, and approach plates for getting into airports if the weather is crummy. Also going into my plane is going to be a video camera to document the entire trip. Yes, the entire trip. I will be making up a rig so I can slide the camera across the entire dash of the plane, along with a swivel mount so the trip can be seen as if you were in the plane with me It will be complete with audio input from the plane's intercom, so it will be just like you are in the right seat. If I hear it, you hear it. A digital camera will accompany me, along with scads of batteries and memory cards, which will be used to take stills of the more scenic places along the way. For you non-aviation readers ANRin addition to the earseals of the passive headsets, these headsets also generate a sound wave that cancels out the noise of the engine.approach plateUsed in conjunction with your navigation radios and enroute charts these are diagrams that help you land at airports when you cant see the field due to bad visibility and or low clouds.IFRInstrument Flight Rules. You need an instrument rating to fly this way. You are expected to be able to get where you are going without seeing the ground.passiveThese are headsets that block out the ambient noise by simply insulating your ears with foam or gel in the earseals that cover your earssectional chartThese charts show the topography of the area in which you are flying, along with airports, radio navigation facilities, and different types of airspace. These are used when flying VFR.VFRVisual Flight Rules. Your most basic set of flight rules. Stay out of the clouds, stay away from the clouds, you will most likely get to where you are going by looking at your sectional chart and then verifying your position by looking outside to find the landmark on the chart |