Music to Fly by

[Tonala2k]

I give instruction in a 172 with a CD player. I've found great results on discovery flights and practicing landings using Top Gun's "Danger Zone." A little anticlimactic, I know in a 172, but if used with moderation and skill it works. I'm just trying now to find some more tunes to get a student jived if feeling discouraged. So if think of any songs you'd want to hear in the cockpit, let me know. (I'm sorry, "I believe I can Fly" has already been rejected)

(I'm just waiting for all the negative posts that are coming my way)

 

[SPilot]

I've tried listening to Disney Channel on AM 990 using the ADF/NDB...and it sure takes my mind of what I'm supposed to be doing...

What about Pink Floyd with "Learning to fly"? Perhaps for the more senior students.:erm:

 

[hoop]

Foo Fighters.... Learning to fly?

Just here to help.......

 

[timeoff]

Tom Petty - "Learning to Fly"

 

[CalifDan]

OK, I'll jump in with the negative response. Discovery Flights are not supposed to be the equivalent of a helicopter tour of the Nepali coast. Music, and particularly "Top Gun" type perspectives should not be projected into a training environment. You are giving your students the wrong impression.

I just completed a three day trip from northern California to San Diego and back. All filed IFR and through two Class B airspaces each way. There is no way that you are going to competently monitor and respond appropriately in that kind of environment while listoning to a Top Gun track.

Based on some of the posts I see in here sometimes, I'm beginning to get concerned about the kind of instructors and students we are bringing along. What you should be doing is impressing on your students that flying is a serious but fun activity...emphasis on serious. If they are not prepared to forego the "walkman" mentality then maybe they should not be mixing it up in an environment that includes aircraft with 100-500 people on board. Frankly, I think that applies to you as well. If you were teaching my wife to fly you would be fired.

 

[navigator72]

Music in the cockpit, not a good idea. But hey, I'm old school before Garmin came out with the G1000 avionics package with XM radio.

 

[GotBoost?]

Pink Floyd/ Learning to Fly- you get a few before-takeoff checklist items thrown in as a bonus...

 

[Metro752]

I give instruction in a 172 with a CD player. I've found great results on discovery flights and practicing landings using Top Gun's "Danger Zone." A little anticlimactic, I know in a 172, but if used with moderation and skill it works. I'm just trying now to find some more tunes to get a student jived if feeling discouraged. So if think of any songs you'd want to hear in the cockpit, let me know. (I'm sorry, "I believe I can Fly" has already been rejected)

(I'm just waiting for all the negative posts that are coming my way)

hehe, i think he's pulling our legs, nobody in their right minds plays Top Gun songs etc during primary training.

 

[PacoPollo]

Night Train- Guns&Roses.

I like the part that says... 'Ready to crash & burn I never learn..'

 

[MauleSkinner]

Personally, I just sing...to the tune of "Love and Marriage"...

Stick and rudder
Stick and rudder
Can't use one without
Usin' the other....



Fly safe!

David