Listening to Music on the Flight Deck - Safety Issue? FAA/Company Aware?

[XJETDriver]

Outstanding point...and it isn't like they have a cruise portion of heart surgery!

You are exactly right! Sometimes for 8-14 hrs.

 

[XJETDriver]

I think the difference is that the doctor kills one patient at a time, while pilots kill...well...enough said.


I'm curious as to what the airlines' and regulators' point of view on this is since this is a fairly new development in flight deck entertainment.

---No, thats not the difference. There is not a difference!

---Who cares what the view of the airline is? How are they going to know if we are listening to music? You might say...CVR? Well it cant be used for such things. Our FOM states that we can only read the CFM, AFM, FOM or anything pertaining to the fight. It says that we can NOT do jepp rev, read paper, and dip. Well I do all three, does it make me a bad pilot? I dont think so! I have a very good headset for listening to music. I just plug my Ipod right into the base of my headset. http://www.anrheadsets.com/products-mach1.asp