Chopper flying and Music
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After a particularly challenging sortie just had to share a tune from the local station with hapless trainee..."Things can only get better.......without You..." caused yet another hover wobble.
On dropping trainees for a unanounced escape and evasion experience called all other instructors across to local station as we solo'd back to base, to the dulcet tones of Niel Diamond - 'Solitary Man'.
We laughed until we stopped.
On dropping trainees for a unanounced escape and evasion experience called all other instructors across to local station as we solo'd back to base, to the dulcet tones of Niel Diamond - 'Solitary Man'.
We laughed until we stopped.
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I need a new intercom system
Can anyone recommend a model of intercom that will allow me to play music with decent quality.
ie. stereo and sound quality at least as good as a personal mp3 player.
I bought a little portable "Pilot Avionics Minicom" for $150 because it claimed it had music and cellphone interface capability. With a cellphone attached I can hear a call come in but cant get my voice heard by the caller and when connecting an MP3 player the quality of sound passed through to the headsets is appalling. Base is lost, midrange is tinny and scratchy and high end lost.
Is it possible to get good sound quality from aircraft systems with for example David Clark headsets?
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ie. stereo and sound quality at least as good as a personal mp3 player.
I bought a little portable "Pilot Avionics Minicom" for $150 because it claimed it had music and cellphone interface capability. With a cellphone attached I can hear a call come in but cant get my voice heard by the caller and when connecting an MP3 player the quality of sound passed through to the headsets is appalling. Base is lost, midrange is tinny and scratchy and high end lost.
Is it possible to get good sound quality from aircraft systems with for example David Clark headsets?
OOW
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Music to Fly by
Neil Diamond's "SkyBird" to anything fun, Hughes 500 low and fast across the Gibson Desert, Yak52 diving through/past Top End CBs STRAIGHT DOWN full throttle, a Harley up Arthur's Pass....
Or a 25' ketch broad reaching across The Minch in a 25kt gale
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Or a 25' ketch broad reaching across The Minch in a 25kt gale
thekite
'Khe Sanh' by Cold Chisel, great low level/flying in the mountains/motorbiking music 
Except I didn't have a copy for Jimmy Barnes to sign when I flew him
Except I didn't have a copy for Jimmy Barnes to sign when I flew him
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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trying to get the robbie to slooooowww down!
Thanks to all the wonderful replies so far, I don't feel so 'weird' anymore when I fly and think/whistle/sing some tune. Cheers.
For those (above) who want to get sound in the headset system - get an avionics nerd to make a fly lead with the right headphone plug on one end and the right headphone socket on the other. Breaking out in between can be a small trailing socket with a minijack socket for your mp3.
And you can move it easily between machines if the headphone plug/socket are compatible.
And you can move it easily between machines if the headphone plug/socket are compatible.
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Everloving from Moby. Started playing it before every PPL exam and also after I got my results. Kept on playin' it throughtout my ATPL exams. It sort of became my personnel victory song.
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Thought I was the only weird one! Nice to see that there are more out there.
But for me it HAS to be Pink Floyd:-
'Learning to fly' when working hard
- (tongue-tied and twisted - just an earth bound misfit I)! Or-
'Comfortably numb' when all is well with the world
. Ooooh errr - hope that's not a portent of things to come.......
Does ANYBODY know how to fly this thing?
But for me it HAS to be Pink Floyd:-
'Learning to fly' when working hard
- (tongue-tied and twisted - just an earth bound misfit I)! Or-'Comfortably numb' when all is well with the world
. Ooooh errr - hope that's not a portent of things to come.......Does ANYBODY know how to fly this thing?
