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My grandkids are getting to the age where they will start flying. Does anyone have one or two headsets that perhaps their own grandkids have outgrown?

Hi Henry,
I have an Avcomm headset I bought 15 years ago, for the same reason.

It has only been used once. I think it retails for $150, I can sell you this one for $75.

Jeff

Thank you for the offer, Jeffrey. How are the cables and ear cups? Someone else offered to send me one of these for free, but then it turned our the sheathing of the cables had decayed too much and the ear cups were also pretty degraded from time. Is the photo you attached recent?

Photo was from this morning. The cables look new. The ear cups also look new.

Henry, I still have a pink kid's headset for sale...see my previous post. Of course, pink may not be your grandchild's color!

Well, I guess I lucked out. I have a David Clark H10-13.4.

DC sells a Youth version of that with a small headband. They even send you a free large headband when the Youth outgrows the small one.

I called them to see if it was possible to go the other way (large headset to youth size), and their customer service said that while they don't have a kit like that, they'd go into their warehouse and just send me the smaller band. Great service and I don't have to buy a headset.

It looks to me like all the child headsets just shorten the band over your head. The ear-cup size doesn't change.

Pink would have worked for my granddaughter, but the converted DC will do too. She'll get an ANR headset when she grows a little. My grandson still has a couple of years to go before he'll need a set.

Thanks everybody for the offers.

Henry,

What are you using for hearing protection for your grandson?

We used a shooting muff style headset for our daughter when she was small, later she got a "talking headset." Suddenly we learned what she was thinking while flying - a lot, she talked endlessly for some time after getting a "talking headset" as she called it.

The grandchildren haven't been flying in a small plane yet! All they've experienced are airliners pre-COVID. My daughter is extremely cautious about that and has not yet wanted to go anywhere. However, she recently asked about flying down to the beach. That's what started me down the path to look for headsets. My granddaughter is 4 and my grandson 2. The granddaughter started talking up a storm when she was one. My grandson is a lot less talkative than her. The muff style headset is a good idea.

We got our daughter into the muff-style headset around the time she had been walking for some months. Prior to that we used cut-down earplugs and a baby bonnet to hold them in place. That was a bit of a challenge.

To get her used to the headset we made sure it was green like our headsets and we put her headset in her toy box where she discovered it. She was excited to have a headset like mom and dad and wore it around the house for a while. Then, when we got in the airplane, it was no problem getting her to wear it.

Ya sure I can't sell ya a PINK headset??? Look how freakin' CUTE!!!!