I use Plantronics at work with dispatch. Suppose I should switch to it to be consistent. Plus would help with Eve Online in fleets.

I've used their professional stuff in the past - and agree it's great. I tried some Plantronics low end commercial gear and I'm not sure it's any better than anybody elses low end stuff. (Their current headsets I have aren't as nice as their older stuff I wore out over 10 years. I'm using my wife's now because my newer model wore out after a few years.)

What I do like is a Plantronics switch that lets me switch back and forth between the headset and speakers.

On a related note, how fast should you fly when on a trajectory to land? As a fairly new S3, I am not yet very comfortable with second guessing how pilots fly in my airspace, even when they cause me and themselves heartache.     Like screaming along a downwind leg at 2000 ft and 270 knots groundspeed - will he slow down, eventually? (I hope so.)

I saw these guidelines somewhere which work reasonably well for me when I fly: (These are for a normal transport aircraft. Obviously, they might need to be adjusted for a specific aircraft type and situation.)

• 230 knots indicated airspeed when approaching an airspace,
• 210 knots inside the airspace,
• 180 knots on final approach.
• The Vref speed for my plane is lower than this so I do more slowing on the approach.

In other words, landing usually isn't a race.
Flying too fast might make it hard to slow down. Or I might not turn you soon enough to give you a nice intercept of the localizer/runway centerline (because turn radius is increased greatly with higher speeds), or since I'm expecting you to slow at some point the downwind path I put you on might be too close to the runway centerline if you don't slow down like I was expecting a sane  pilot to do.

Are there other guidelines people use?