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Hi All I'm the friend that Wirraway referred to with regards to the Lightspeed Zulu headset. I'm at around the same stage in my training as he is (maybe one or two lessons ahead). I found with the loan headsets from the flying school, I was always asking my instructor "what did he say?" or asking ATC to "say again". I do have some slight hearing loss(due to 8 years of working as a sound engineer with very loud music back in my 20's), so I find it difficult to pick out a conversation when there is a lot of background noise. Don't try to talk to me in a noisy pub.. I'll just nod my head and look like I know what you are say Anyway, that made my choice of headset more important. I also found that the pressure with passive sets gave me headaches and my ears hurt after a flight. I did a lot of googling/reading about headsets.. must have read 50+ reviews and in the end it always came back to the Bose X or the Lightspeed Zulu. Since there's no local shop here to try them, I went with the LightSpeed based purely on the fact that it was slightly newer and I thought the bluetooth option might be useful one day. I have to say, yes it was expensive (worth almost 5 hrs of flying), but I don't regret the purchase one bit. They really are fantastic to use, and it's makes doing the radio calls so much easier when you can actually hear what ATC are saying. Wirraway if you want to borrow them for your next flight just let me know.. but be warned, I will want them back(and you won't want to give them back!). Vincent.