Headset music

Brad Z wrote:

not quite the same as a student pilot solo cross country flight.



I love to listen to music when I'm doing other things. As a software
engineer, car driver, airplane pilot, snow skier, or whatever, music
usually occupies that part of my mind that seems to need "something".
Relief from boredom, emotional enhancement, I don't know. But it really
helps to keep the thought process and/or enjoyment flowing at times.

Having said that, things can go the other way. Sometimes I find myself
distracted from the task at hand and *listening to the music*. Then,
the music is not helping to relieve or enhance the task at hand - it's
actually hindering me. As a new pilot, I won't be listening to music
until I get real confident; and then only during the occasional boring
stretch on an XC.

One other thing: I've also noticed the occasional aural fatigue - I just
get brain-tired from constant sound. Maybe I need to turn it down a bit
on those occasions. :-P Wish the 172's came with a volume control... I
suppose that's what ANR is for.

-Scott

Sometimes I find myself
distracted from the task at hand and *listening to the music*.

I recall once, when I was young and stupid, driving down the road
listening to the car radio while smoking a cigarette and thinking
about something else.
all the best -- Dan Ford
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One other thing: I've also noticed the occasional aural fatigue - I just
get brain-tired from constant sound. Maybe I need to turn it down a bit
on those occasions. :-P Wish the 172's came with a volume control... I
suppose that's what ANR is for.

Get a pair of ANR headsets. It will be the best money you EVER invested.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:47:19 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

That being said, I cannot imagine any circumstance that I would feel
comfortable interjecting music into my brain while I'm flying.

Go fly 1000 miles this weekend. In most spam cans, that will take about
ten hours, give or take.

The first five hours, fly without music. The second five hours, fly with
music.

If, after this experience, you can still make your statement with such
absolute conviction, I will be very surprised.

On our trip home from Sun N Fun, we pulled a 4 hour leg. Our PS Engineering
CD player makes these kinds of flights MUCH more fun, especially with two
kids in the back seats. (Of course, having to listen to Eminem once in a
while was some sort of penance... :-)

Jay,

You missed the point. My major emphasis is on low-time pilots and
students. You are clearly not the target of my advice. Nothing was
stated with absolute conviction (hint: note the word 'I" in the
sentence you quoted. I also stated that this advice was not written
as something that should be construed as "the only way". I stand by
my statements as they apply to students and low-timers. Just out of
curiosity, did you listen to music as a student?

Rich Russell

In article , Richard
Russell wrote:

Just out of curiosity, did you listen to music as a student?

They didn't have headsets and intercoms with music inputs when Jay was
a student. ;-))

Just out of curiosity, did you listen to music as a student?

They didn't have headsets and intercoms with music inputs when Jay was
a student. ;-))

Hey!

Well, they had headsets.

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:H1Qhc.2558$aQ6.411038@attbi_s51...

(Of course, having to listen to Eminem once in a
while was some sort of penance... :-)


That's why they invented the "pilot isolate" switch.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

John Galban wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:H1Qhc.2558$aQ6.411038@attbi_s51...


(Of course, having to listen to Eminem once in a
while was some sort of penance... :-)



That's why they invented the "pilot isolate" switch.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

No, that's why they invented the storm window.

--Dave

--
Dave Buckles

http://www.flight-instruction.com

Jay,

Our PS Engineering
CD player makes these kinds of flights MUCH more fun, especially with two
kids in the back seats. (Of course, having to listen to Eminem once in a
while was some sort of penance... :-)


Don't you have two music inputs, front and back? Don't you have some kind
of portable music player in the household to complement the CD player?
Problem solved.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Don't you have two music inputs, front and back? Don't you have some kind
of portable music player in the household to complement the CD player?
Problem solved.

Yes, but the stupidly designed back-seat jack input (it sticks straight out
from the wall, perpendicularly) guaranteed that, sooner or later, someone's
shoulder or elbow would over-stress the jack.

Sure enough, on this trip my son pushed the plug of his CD player in, and
the jack fell inside the plastic housing. It's an easy fix, but I'm gonna
have to get a 90 degree bend plug to ensure that this doesn't happen again.

Bottom line: On this trip, I listened to Eminem for a while. (And,
actually, if you listen to the words of some of his stuff, he's pretty
clever. I wouldn't call it "music" per se, but it's clever stuff.)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"