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GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby ViperPilot » Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:46 pm

Hello! I don't know if anyone has brought this up before, but I'll take a stab at it.
Do GA pilots listen to music in the cockpit during flight? I figure that, with the workload a pilot deals with in general, listening to music while in flight would be a distraction. But, I really don't know. What are your thoughts?

Thanks!

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Re: GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby C » Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:01 pm

Hello! I don't know if anyone has brought this up before, but I'll take a stab at it.
Do GA pilots listen to music in the cockpit during flight? I figure that, with the workload a pilot deals with in general, listening to music while in flight would be a distraction. But, I really don't know. What are your thoughts?

Thanks!

Alan


I'm sure there are some that do. Whether I would be deemed prudent, or good airmanship is another matter.
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Re: GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby DaveSims » Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:14 pm

Hello! I don't know if anyone has brought this up before, but I'll take a stab at it.
Do GA pilots listen to music in the cockpit during flight? I figure that, with the workload a pilot deals with in general, listening to music while in flight would be a distraction. But, I really don't know. What are your thoughts?

Thanks!

Alan


I'm sure there are some that do. Whether I would be deemed prudent, or good airmanship is another matter.
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Re: GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby ViperPilot » Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:43 pm

Hello!

Thanks for the replies so far; it's just something that I wondered about... I was thinking that it would be nice during a x- country flight.

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Re: GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby C » Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:33 pm

Hello! I don't know if anyone has brought this up before, but I'll take a stab at it.
Do GA pilots listen to music in the cockpit during flight? I figure that, with the workload a pilot deals with in general, listening to music while in flight would be a distraction. But, I really don't know. What are your thoughts?

Thanks!

Alan


I'm sure there are some that do. Whether I would be deemed prudent, or good airmanship is another matter.
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Re: GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby specter177 » Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:44 pm

Yea, I can plug my MP3 player into my headset, and it will interrupt if anyone talks.
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Re: GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby SeanTK » Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:11 pm

As the others have said, there are plenty of headset or in-panel options to allow a CD or MP3 player to be played when there is no radio traffic.

I would never use a music system during IFR flight, and would only be willing to try a system once it was demonstrated to me that it is reliable, and then I would probably only use it on short VFR tours when I take friends up.  :)
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Re: GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby DaveSims » Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:48 pm

[quote]As the others have said, there are plenty of headset or in-panel options to allow a CD or MP3 player to be played when there is no radio traffic.

I would never use a music system during IFR flight, and would only be willing to try a system once it was demonstrated to me that it is reliable, and then I would probably only use it on short VFR tours when I take friends up.
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Re: GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby Brett_Henderson » Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:53 pm

I'd be leary of not hearing a subtle message from the engine.

I'd advise a PIC to not preoccupy any of his sensory input, nor add a distraction to the cockpit.
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Re: GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby DaveSims » Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:03 pm

I'd be leary of not hearing a subtle message from the engine.

I'd advise a PIC to not preoccupy any of his sensory input, nor add a distraction to the cockpit.


IMHO, it isn't much different than using a noise-cancelling headset.  Unless you have the music turned WAY up, you can still hear most of the engine noise. 
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Re: GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby Brett_Henderson » Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:36 pm

We're granted a great deal of leeway, as pilots. Gotta decide for ourselves what we should, and should not do.

That's just my opinion/advice.  :)
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Re: GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby The Ruptured Duck » Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:45 pm

The only time I've listened to music in flight was when me and my primary flight instructor took a Sunday morning local leisure flight.  It was long after I had my ticket and he was in town  with some time off from the airline he now flies for.  We listened to Stevie Ray Vaughn and it was a stunning day for flying.  Other than that I never really thought to listen to music while flying.

We have to remember that our attention is like a flashlight that illuminates only so much at a time.  In order to listen to music, we must pay attention if even for a brief second.
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Re: GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby BSW727 » Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:29 am

I've never listened to music while flying either R-W or in the sim. Too many things going on most of the time and when not, I'd rather listen to the radio chatter.
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Re: GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby Brett_Henderson » Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:56 pm

I thnk the question should be:

Would you want pilot of the airplane on which you're a passenger, to be fiddling with, and listening to his iPod ?


(I wouldn't)
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Re: GA Question: Listening to Music during flight

Postby beaky » Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:18 pm

I've only experienced this once- in a Champ that actually had an XM radio receiver patched into the intercom. The PIC didn't monkey with it much at all- just turned it on and quickly adjusted the volume before we got going.
I didn't think I would enjoy it (always thought I was a purist about airplane noises), but I did.
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