Cockpit Accessories

Automotive systems from XM and Sirius are inexpensive and perform we’ll in the air.

In a market flooded with expensive choices, Bose remains the standout but Telex and LightSPEED are good values.

You don’t have to spend a grand for active noise cancelling. For under $500, our top picks are LightSPEED and Headsets, Inc.

If you can puzzle out the catalog options, you’ll find a well-designed mount for every purpose.

Tired of spewing expensive oxygen all over the cabin? Precise Flights conserver controls the flow.

Tired of spewing expensive oxygen all over the cabin? Precise Flights conserver controls the flow.

Thats how most of us approach weight and balance. But some aircraft wont tolerate that. CG plotters tell which ones.

A bargain replacement for the JD-200, this radio performs we’ll for only $275.

Conserving cannulas represent the best combination of comfort and efficient delivery of oxygen.

PS Engineerings CD player has superior sound but AI is the only choice if you want AM/FM, too.

[IMGCAP(1)]The ugly side of having an aircraft sound system is lugging around all those CDs and, worse, shuffling them around the cockpit along with charts, plates, flashlights and all the rest of the cockpit blather.

One intriguing alternative to this being hawked at Sun n Fun by Gulfcoast Avionics is a clever product called a Personal Jukebox, a high-capacity CD/MP3 storage device.

The PJ is little more than a miniature hard drive with an audio section but at 6GB, it has the astonishing ability to store the equivalent of 125 CDs or about 100 hours of music. Each CD or track can be accessed and played via a menu system, in order, by CD or randomly, by song.

To load the music, yo…

What does a watch do? It tells time, of course.

What does a pilots watch do? Well, it tells time, too. But traditionally, it also has a stopwatch function, often called a chronograph, a high falutin word that simply means interval timer. Since pilots are also navigators and navigation traditionally requires highly reliable timepieces, the would-be buyer may vaguely assume that a pilots watch slices the seconds with laser-like accuracy, a notion the ad agencies for Rolex, Brietling and others have done nothing to dispel. (Its not true, of course.)

Then there’s the look. There’s nothing quite like a shimmering gold-cased watch with a dial the size of a dinner plate and festoo…