Headset music

"Neil Bratney" wrote in message
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I'm getting set for my second solo cross country in training for my PP.

I had an interesting experience last week.

I was a judge at a regional high school science fair competition recently.
One student's project was to find out if her parents were right about not
being able to concentrate while listening to music. She aimed to prove them
wrong.

She lost.

She had a couple dozen students look at some pictures while listening to
various types of music. The control group listened to silence. Each
subject was given a certain amount of time to study the pictures (of a
toaster, car, cat, dog, etc . . .) and was required to attempt to recall as
many pictures as possible afterwards.

The control group listening to silence scored highest. There was an
insignificant difference between silence and classical music. There was a
much lower score for those listening to pretty much everything else (rap,
country, rock and so on).

Bottom line is that you have plenty to concentrate heavily upon during your
first hundred or two hours. I'm all for rocking-out once you get some
significant experience. But, for now, you need 110% of your brain cells
focused on the many tasks involved with flying your first long solo.

Scrap the idea of in-flight music and come back to it when you've learned
everything.

--
Jim Fisher

"Jim Fisher" wrote in message


Scrap the idea of in-flight music and come back to it when you've
learned everything.

"Learned everything"?

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John T
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Scrap the idea of in-flight music and come back to it when you've
learned everything.

"Learned everything"?


There's a controller here who can tell you about that. g,d

Jose

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"John T" wrote:

Scrap the idea of in-flight music and come back to it when you've
learned everything.

"Learned everything"?

"become familiar with *all* available information" FAR
91.103 :-)
Todd Pattist
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Make a commitment to learn something from every flight.
Share what you learn.

Bottom line is that you have plenty to concentrate heavily upon during your
first hundred or two hours. I'm all for rocking-out once you get some
significant experience. But, for now, you need 110% of your brain cells
focused on the many tasks involved with flying your first long solo.

Scrap the idea of in-flight music and come back to it when you've learned
everything.


Don't think it's possible to have learned _everything_... but I would
wait on the music for a while. I remember my first solo xc; I needed
all the concentration I could get (and then some; that's why it took
me the first 40 miles to figure out why the plane kept going
off-course to the left--my left foot was resting on the rudder pedals
and slowly causing me to turn that way).

And regardless, I wouldn't go using music if I had to listen to ATC.
I guess it's only suited for cruising around VFR on a good day--or
when you're taxiing out and decide to play the first part of "Danger
Zone" grin