What Music Do You Play in your Helicopter??
 

Any ideas as to good music to play when you are flying..

The most obvious.......

Wagner - Flight of the Valkyries


Also - any quick tips for setting up your comms system for playing music..

surely Adagio for strings would have to rate a mention?

Johnny Paycheck...."Take this job and shove it!" (I ain't working here, no more...):{

"It's Raining Men" :} :} but only with passengers!

Never play Bob Seigers "Running on empty", your customers will give you a deserved suspicious look!

But really, why do you need music when you have that lovely music maker pumping out the horsepower (for a long time) out the back.

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When I was a stude at Shawbury, just a few years ago, I was wandering up Wyle Cop in Shrewsbury when I found a tiny record shop. Inside, I found an album by Simon Jeffes' (RIP) assemblage "The Penguin Cafe Orchestra" that had a track called "Music For Helicopter Pilots" - sold! Took it back to my room and played it; the track I was interested in was nothing special, but 2 other pieces ("Music for a Found Harmonium" and "Telephone and Rubber Band") have since become famous the world over through their use by the advertising industry. "Harmonium" remains my favourite, although the people I used to share a house with may have a different opinion... over-exposure can do that :(

Music for a found harmonium
 

I didn't know there was a recording of this! I learned to play it on the banjo from a mate. When I heard the tune, I asked him what key it was in. All of them, he replied!!

Don't have a sound system , so I sing to myself. This week, I have mostly been singing "In These Shoes" by the late, great Kirsty MacColl. I try not to do it when I have passengers!

Cheers

Whirlygig

"Mana Mana" by the Muppets....

Take a Walkman CD/cassette player plus headphones. Cut off headphones. Connect remaining lead to a standard aircraft headset jackplug. Plug into headset socket.

I'm also guilty of singing on no-pax legs, for some reason it's often Jeff Buckley's 'Grace'!
Good helo songs - maybe 'You spin me right round' by whoever that was.
'Born to be wild' - good one to shoot rockets by!
I once flew across to Daru on a low puffy strato cu day, scraping the bottom of the clouds in a haphazard manner with Radio Australia on the HF playing Vince Jones' jazz; one of those nice moments to remember.

PS Didn't realise that Kirsty McColl was 'the late', very sad.

The circumstances surrounding her death are even more sad. SHe was swimming in the sea with her children when a motor boat came along..... he shouldn't have been in that area as it was for swimmers only.

"Old red eyes is back" by The Beautiful South

(company song)

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Also - any quick tips for setting up your comms system for playing music.

I received this from a techie at Honeywell:

For a KMA 24H -70 and -71:

If the output impedance of the CD/Tape/MP3 device is high enough (500 ohms) then it could be
connected to one of the unused audio inputs. Pin 14 is an unswitched input and pin 10 is an
unswitched/unmuted input.The KMA 24H does not have a dedicated entertainment/music input.

The Tx Key will mute all audio except transmit sidetone and altimeter warning from the headphone
output and all audio except altimeter warning from the speaker output.

Nick Mason the Pink Floyd drummer owns a beautiful AS350B3. Love to know what he plays in flight.:cool:

The music fan
 

Some of my friends rave deliriously about the late Jeff Buckley's "Grace" album. I have tried and tried to like it but I find it absolutely unlistenable. Talk about chalk on a blackboard! Jeez, and I kind of liked his father's music.

"You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) " (which is a great helicopter tune) was by Dead Or Alive (a *very* strange band - hoo boy!) from their Youthquake album.

And "Running On Empty" was Jackson Browne not Bob Seger.

Personally, I never liked listening to music while flying, either in airplanes or helicopters. Don't know why. Distracting, I guess. However I do often find myself humming "Three Little Fishes"...an homage to David Janssen in the t.v. movie "Birds of Prey." And like all bad songs that get stuck in your head, once I get started...

Clearly the Airwolf theme tune deserves a mention...

R

When I was still flying tours:

Pax boarding: "Waiting for a girl like you", Foreigner
Take-off: "Hot blooded", Foreigner
Coming to the first great view: "Requiem" plus another Sarah Brightman song
Coming to the second great vista: "Shine on you crazy diamond", Pink Floyd
Low level on the way back: "Ride of the valkyries", Wagner
Final approach after low level: "Dirty white boy", Foreigner.

When on a job where the pax wouldn't have headsets, on take-off for the first flight of the day, "China Grove" by the Doobie Brothers. After that anything went, although I remember someone looking at me with a funny look on her face as we dived into a canyon with me singing along with Boston's "Long time" at the top of my voice.

Company I used to work for in Canada used to rig up every machine with an input for a walkman/discman - great for those long positioning flights or while bucketing - they used to cut out for radio work too so there was no interference.

How about some System of a Down, the Deftones or Filter, or if you're feeling mellow try out Bhudda-Bar

Guy in our outfit plays the Top Gun soundtrack.......I often wonder what he's thinking........

What Music Do You Play in your Helicopter??
 

Surely its the same as driving a car. Usually the louder the music, the bigger the pratt driving the car Should not ones attention be focused on the sounds of the machine.

During our tours we had all kinds of music playing from our iPod...but now we just installed XM Radio (satellite) and now the possibilities are endless! It's pretty cool! :cool: