I did a flight yesterday during which my headset (A30) slid off backwards. I think I looked upwards at something…
Normally this would not be an issue but this time it got tangled up with my sunglasses and it was a bugger to untangle it, during which time I could not see forward properly. Also I was flying by hand, not on autopilot. Had the cable got tangled up in the 3 levers, things would have got even more interesting…
When starting airline training long ago, a friend was instructed that after sitting down in the plane the next step was to “make your nest”, organizing everything around you in a specific and preplanned way. He passed that on to me and it stuck, especially since my plane is small and I wear a 5-point harness with limited movement. My headset cable gets tucked between the seat base and the side of the fuselage, then up to my head from there. All cables to e.g. my Stratus ADS-B receiver and iPad mount are almost invisible – I spent a lot of time getting the units installed, cable routing hidden, lengths correct and terminations secure. Without that the potential to foul either the control sticks or engine control quadrant would be pretty high.
Silvaire wrote:
a friend was instructed that after sitting down in the plane the next step was to “make your nest”, organizing everything around you in a specific and preplanned way.
I do the same but have never heard it explained like that before – I like it.
I extend it to getting the avionics set up with the volume/squelch how I want them, etc. I recall once during my PPL training when an instructor (not my regular instructor) told me to “stop faffing about with all of that” and was not at all interested in the fact that training might be easier if all involved could hear comfortably. After the discussion I was fairly convinced he didn’t really know what the squelch control did.
I have to say that cabling, especially the headset ones, are one of the things that annoys me the most, from a comfort point, and that goes for both the little Rallye and the little G650, it´s always a bloody mystery how they somehow get entangled. I though the A30s had a strong clamping force 
Same here – headset cables are a PITA sometimes. As I needed a new headset recently I was tempted to buy a cableless Lightspeed Tango for that reason but finally shied away and bought a “conventional” Zulu, as the Tango for whatever reason not very popular within the GA community. Being a genuea pig is a thing I’m even more afraid of than getting tangled up in my headset cables :-)
