Well, this makes for a sh*tty week in flight simulation! as you now my secondary system was an old laptop that took care of my communication facilities (texting and voice communications with ATC), flight reporting and chart viewer. Well that laptop kicked the bucket! a single keyboard key is electronically stuck (not a mechanical problem) and even with an external keyboard as soon as there is a text field receiving data the whole thing gets stuck. Most times it doesn’t go past the Power On Self Test (POST). So, my communications console is gone… Single PC playing is difficult because of a compatibility problem between IvAp (IVAO’s pilot client) and Windows 7 and FSX, at least I have that problem on my new system.
To make things worse my trusted Logitech USB headset which was really comfortable got damaged. It can reproduce audio (hear) just fine but when it comes to transmitting there seems to be a problem with the cable which makes the audio being sent really hard to listen to (feedback from the other end). This was already going for some time but apparently it is now just plain worthless. Funny thing, this is the 2nd Logitech headset of that same model that goes bust!
Of course, when one thing goes bad there must be more! and it was indeed so! I had a backup neckband headset, a Trust HS-2400 which I used only in extraordinary circumstances. Owned it for just about a year and used it no more than 3 or 4 times. Well, ironically there is nothing to be trusted from this Trust headset! it is worthless, the microphone is not operational anymore!.
I think I will now have to resort to my Jabra BT-620s Bluetooth headset, hopefully that does it although its driver is kind of moody.
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