In article , GeorgeC
wrote:

I was thinking about flying with an IPOD, but I heard there are problems with
the hard drive at high altitude. I talking C172 high altitude not B-52 high
altitude. Have you had any problems or heard of any problem with the IPOD at
altitude?

The iPods list their maximum operating altitude as 10,000 feet.
(That's cabin altitude, which will normally be that or less in a
pressurized airplane.) So just keep it 10 and below, and you should
be fine in the 172.

I have heard of issues -- I read of one fellow who killed two of them
in a turbo, non-pressurized airplane. In both cases, the hard drives
were destroyed, and in one of them, the whole shell of the iPod popped
open. That's when he realized what was happening.

The problem is basically that the hard drive heads are riding on a
microscopic layer of air. Thin the air out too much, and the heads
crash right onto the platter. Whoops.

You should be fine in the 172 as long as you don't go all the way up.

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Garner R. Miller
ATP/CFII/MEI
Clifton Park, NY =USA=
http://www.garnermiller.com/