Music listeners? How do you?

[Wankel7]

So what do you guys do to get the music into your ears on those long flights?

Wankel

 

[corpflunkie]

Use your ADF. Or, the lightspeed 30-3g has a jack that allows you to plug your portable cd player into it.

Good luck!!

 

[Wankel7]

Man oh man can I use the ADF. I can almost flip perfectly from 810-820-830....and so on. I can never find any alt. rock on that

I have an older pair of Lightspeeds. Maybe I can buy the newer control box that has that interface.

Wankel

 

[POKEY]

I usually plug in an mp3 player into the intercom, works great as along as the cpt and fo like the same kind of music

 

[jstanotherpilot]

Heres one way to do it at least on a crj or any other aircraft that has a built in intercom with an observers headset plug in station.

I haven't done this yet only because I don't have a MP3 player or any tunes to put on it yet. I'm an A&P and an I.A. so I know the wiring so it can be done.

Take a connector wire that plugs into the out port of your MP3 and at the other end splice in a mike plug in pin.

The mike plug in pin can't be obtained from radio shack.

You would have to go to an avionics or pilot supply store to get one or get one off an old junk headset and splice the wires.

The avionics shop best since they would probably do it for free for the fun of it if your real nice.

Then just plug in the pin to the observers staion mike jack.

Switch on the observers intercom switch as needed.

Even in a CRJ's and similar aircrafts AC electrical system as seen by people wearing David Clarks in them the system works with standard audio electrical power and components.

Otherwise the old way I did it which required more hassle was to carry around a portable intercom box like a softcom 2 place and have both pilots plugged into that and the intercom itself plugged into whichever the pilots jack that is talking to ATC. FO's side if FO talking. WHat a pain that was.

The MP3 with one wire would be so much easier plugged into the observers mike jack.

 

[Wankel7]

The only thing that would concern me is this. Isn't the audio system a different ohm rating than the output of a music device?

I really have no idea what I am talkign about that is just what I heard

Wankel

 

[100-1/2]

Who gives a shiznit what the FO likes?!?

 

[uscpilot]

The easiest way to get music is to get the small headphones that fit in your ear and wear your headset on top. Works for my gameboy and cd player. Kind of suprised nobody mentioned it yet.
If something other than a braves or hawks game is on then yeah ADF all the way. Listen Neal Boortz or Sean Hannity
usc

 

[starcheck1]

Input

I picked up this cord from pilotmall.com . It wasn't cheap but has worked great for me. Plus...in a two pilot situation your the only one who hears the tunes. The only thing I have noticed is when your music is on it dims the sound of the comm radio a little....so remember to turn the radio up a notch and enjoy some Jimmy Buffet all night long.

 

[generaltso]

I have this thing:
The Muse

Although I think I paid more like $100 for it. It works fine and can even mute the music when ATC or a crew member speaks.

 

[CaptainBrazilia]

After looking briefly at the item from pilotmall that starcheck1 linked to, I went to Radio Shack and bought everything I needed to build one exactly like that. Out the door, $25...and that INCLUDES the $8 soldering kit I bought!

So, anyone having the ability to strip a wire and novice soldering skills can build one of these for about $17 in parts and 15 minutes of their time. The one I built seems to work okay so far (I hooked it to my home stereo and my iPod and I could hear both at the same time through my headset), though I haven't tried it in the airplane yet. I'll do that tomorrow at work.

 

[Wankel7]

So can you post a little write up ?



Wankel

 

[freighthumper]

uscpilot has it right on with the earbud type headphones that fit in your ear under your headset. this way you have a different speaker for the music than you do for your more "important" radio communications you can hear both fine, one never(unles you have a P.O.S. radio stack) cuts the other out, and you dont have to wire anything, just pay the 5$ for the headphones. I would recommend the earbuds made by Koss, they have a model that has a post that goes into your ear with an earplug looking seal around it. These are much more comfortable than the standard earbuds and they sound quite a bit better...a set will run you 20 though....but they do last a while. ROCK ON