Best way to play music in the cockpit?

[7B2]

you guys are soo lucky,
I need a boombox turned up to 10 to be able to hear anything in some of these piston twins.
Don't have to worry about not being to able to hear the radios; what radios...
I'm part 135.

 

[low-key]

splice a microphone size plug into your MP3's output and put into the ERJ's observer panel and put it on hot mic. works like a charm, the only bad thing is that i believe it goes onto the cockpit voice recorder.... another way to do it is to buy ear buds and a splitter and just put them in with your DC"s then all the CVR can hear is your comments, lol. I am thinking this would work with a portable DVD too......

 

[PositiveRate]

I'm going to have to side with ACATerry and Lequip on this one. No matter what your pay or what your beef with this industry, you're a professional airline pilot. Listening to music in a Part 121 cockpit is highly unprofessional.

I flew with a guy once who was an ADF'er and found that he was unreliable at best on the radio when he was into whatever game was on the radio.

If you can't maintain your focus and fly your aircraft safely for a typical 2 hr leg without some sort of "entertainment", you might want to think about how seriously your taking your job as a professional.

Just my 2 cents...

 

[ejm179]

SELCAL-The best way to fly.


P.S. How can one hear better listening to ADF than listening to MP3 or CD?

 

[boxjockey]

And I suppose you guys who are b!tching about the music never, EVER read on the flight deck? This is an equal attention diverter, and I would guess in most ops specs it is against company policy. Professional pilots, blah blah blah....

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[acaTerry]

And I suppose you guys who are b!tching about the music never, EVER read on the flight deck? This is an equal attention diverter, and I would guess in most ops specs it is against company policy. Professional pilots, blah blah blah....

Yes, but at least we can hear the radio. And we are quickly alert to what's going on, rather than having to shut off our player, start realizing we're on an airplane, etc.

 

[7B2]

Ooooh boy.........

 

[TWA Dude]

Lemme venture a guess that those who oppose music in the cockpit are perfectly okay with Rush Limbaugh on the ADF.

Dude

 

[mullet]

I can't believe this "entertain me" mentality. Can't you kids just do something without needing some sort of electric stimulation? You guys are like the Nirvana song.

You are absolutly correct! You've inspired me! I will now go and rip the stereo out of my Jeep! Maybe now I can pratice my whistling???

 

[Axel]

Unbelieveable

 

[PositiveRate]

I can't believe i'm biting again, but here goes. I think all these tangental arguments are pointless...this has nothing to do with your jeep or anyone's adaptation to the tech-age. Listening to music while flying a jet full of paying passengers for a Part 121 airline is blatently unprofessional. Simple as that.

BoxJockey, I disagree that reading a magazine or the paper is more distracting than music. It's one thing if you have a magazine in your hands and you get an RA or a decompression. It's a whole different story when you have alarms going off, need to call ATC, etc. and your mic jack is unplugged because your listening to Pearl Jam. Also, a little less extreme, but equally important, I almost never miss calls while reading, but the one time i listened in to "the big game" on the ADF, the captain and I were missing calls left and right. As a side note, I always ask a captain if he minds if I read...I've even had captains ask me if they mind if they read....it's professional curteousy.

 

[FmrFreightDog]

Bah..... I think, being a Comair guy, you probably are against listening to music because it interferes with your ability to b1tch at Atlanta ops on the radio and tie up the frequency with your 1001 petty comments while everybody else is waiting their turn to talk.... but that's just my opinion.


By the way, thank you for lecturing us from on high with your vast 2500 hours of experience.


Lighten up, Francis.

 

[PositiveRate]

Thank you sir for reminding me why I don't post much anymore. It's impossible to say or do anything without bitter folks like yourself making everything a fight.

If you want to flame me because I think that listening to MP3's over the intercomm as a crewmember in a P121 cockpit is unprofessional....go right ahead. I know I'm right.

Get over your Comair / ATL hangups. I'm sorry you're bitter, but that problem has nothing to do with this thread. Either way, I'll let y'all fight it out without me from here on.

 

[Fly2Scuba]

I can't believe i'm biting again, but here goes. I think all these tangental arguments are pointless...this has nothing to do with your jeep or anyone's adaptation to the tech-age. Listening to music while flying a jet full of paying passengers for a Part 121 airline is blatently unprofessional. Simple as that.

BoxJockey, I disagree that reading a magazine or the paper is more distracting than music. It's one thing if you have a magazine in your hands and you get an RA or a decompression. It's a whole different story when you have alarms going off, need to call ATC, etc. and your mic jack is unplugged because your listening to Pearl Jam. Also, a little less extreme, but equally important, I almost never miss calls while reading, but the one time i listened in to "the big game" on the ADF, the captain and I were missing calls left and right. As a side note, I always ask a captain if he minds if I read...I've even had captains ask me if they mind if they read....it's professional curteousy.

With the MP3 player hooked up through the jumpseater's jack, there would be absolutely no problem making any sudden radio calls. Like I said before, I have flown in airplanes in the past with music playing (ADF and MP3) and as long as its conducted out of the terminal area, then no major distraction issues. Keeping the volume relatively low makes missing radio calls difficult and keying the mike cuts out the music just like if someone was speaking through the hot mike. Sorry you had a major problem in your incident; my experiences have been pleasant...Well as long as no R&B, Jazz, or Country Music is playing (my personal least favorite choices). Please no one respond with Country music is awesome. Thank you.

 

[username]

Country music is awesome!