Collins Radios?

"Craig" <cvairwerks@tigerbyte.net> wrote in message
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> "Jim" <jburns3@uniontel.net> wrote in message
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> > Can the group tell me how Collins Radios rank as far as quality compared
> > with King and Narco? I've never used them and I see a lot of the 70's
> > Archers seem to have Collins as standard equipment.
> > Thanks!
>
> Pretty much the standard to compare by. Collins builds about 90% of
> the military stuff in current use.

I thought that was Honeywell.

>
> I prefer it to the others for size, durability and always being able
> to be heard with them.

Why, oh why, do aircraft radios' all sound about like nylon strings with a
couple paper cups on the end?

Jim wrote:
> Can the group tell me how Collins Radios rank as far as quality compared
> with King and Narco? I've never used them and I see a lot of the 70's
> Archers seem to have Collins as standard equipment.

There is no comparison to the audio quality of Collins, it is so vastly
superior to what you hear from any of the other manufacturers. That was
my experience using a set of ProLine that Ohio State has in their
Duchess, multi-engine trainer.

I strongly suspect that both the radio and the pilot are older than you...
I have an adf
a collins
and no autopilot
and I fly ifr...
So, what do you think, Tony?
cheers ... denny -

Tony Woolner" <tonyppl@bestweb.net> wrote in > I saw yesterday a Piper
Warrior with a Collins radio. Never saw these radios
> before.