Happiness is a warm ipod

[Ron Garret]

....and an audio panel that you can plug it in to. Flew VNY->LAS on
Thursday with a nano plugged in to the auxiliary audio input in my
Cirrus. Now my flight has a sound track! Clear skies, smooth air, a 45
knot tailwind (!), an autopilot, and Yanni Live at the Acropolis. Now
that's my idea of a good time!

I must have gone into karma deficit on the way out though because
yesterday a front rolled through, and the 45 knot tail wind turned into
a 50 know headwind with icing and occasional severe turbulence. I
probably could have made it, but I decided not to find out. There are
worse places to be stuck than Vegas. First time I've ever been grounded
by weather away from home.

Best decision I've ever made. Today was CAVU. Got up at 5:00
(adrenaline is a wonderful thing) and took off just as the sun was
coming up. Only a 20 knot headwind, and just a little chop coming out
of McCarran (which might have just been wake turbulence from the C130 I
was following!) Heard a lot of air chatter about how great today was
compared to yesterday.

I made it back early enough that the guy who had the plane checked out
this morning didn't have to delay his flight.

Anyway, if your panel has an audio input and you've been thinking about
bring along some tunes, I highly recommend it. Staying on the ground if
you're unsure about the weather seems like a pretty good idea in
retrospect as well.

rg

[Larry Dighera]

Thanks for the report. I'll bet the visibility was 100 miles this
morning.

On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 12:25:56 -0800, Ron Garret >
wrote in >::

>Staying on the ground if you're unsure about the weather seems like
>a pretty good idea in retrospect as well.

While you could have launched, and had a look, a decision that errs on
the side of prudence is ever preferable to one that relies on chance.

[Maule Driver]

Ron Garret wrote:
> ...and an audio panel that you can plug it in to. Flew VNY->LAS on
> Thursday with a nano plugged in to the auxiliary audio input in my
> Cirrus. Now my flight has a sound track!
;
An ipod-type music player is great. I've had some problems with my
original ipod when flying - could be altitude effects on the disk drive.
Nano doesn't have a disk which is even better. The XM Satellite Radio
feed from my Garmin 396 is the best but it costs.

My avionics guy suggested an aux input jack when he installed the Garmin
panel years ago. Great suggestion on his part.

[Aluckyguess]

I had an Ipod shuffle and it didn't work. I stole my kids ipod (was more
songs) and it worked great. It is nice to fly that way.
"Maule Driver" > wrote in message
m...
> Ron Garret wrote:
>> ...and an audio panel that you can plug it in to. Flew VNY->LAS on
>> Thursday with a nano plugged in to the auxiliary audio input in my
>> Cirrus. Now my flight has a sound track!
> ;
> An ipod-type music player is great. I've had some problems with my
> original ipod when flying - could be altitude effects on the disk drive.
> Nano doesn't have a disk which is even better. The XM Satellite Radio
> feed from my Garmin 396 is the best but it costs.
>
> My avionics guy suggested an aux input jack when he installed the Garmin
> panel years ago. Great suggestion on his part.

[Ron Garret]

In article >,
Larry Dighera > wrote:

> Thanks for the report. I'll bet the visibility was 100 miles this
> morning.

Sounds about right. :-)

> >Staying on the ground if you're unsure about the weather seems like
> >a pretty good idea in retrospect as well.
>
> While you could have launched, and had a look, a decision that errs on
> the side of prudence is ever preferable to one that relies on chance.

Yeah, I thought about that too. I finally decided that I could deal
with a fifty knot headwind. I could deal with severe turbulence. I
could deal with clouds. I could deal with mountains. I could deal with
ice. But I couldn't deal with all those things at once. Best case
scenario I'd get home frazzled. Worst case, well, let's not go there.
By staying on the ground I got to have a fun flight home instead of a
grueling one. That counts as a net win in my book.

rg

[john smith]

> I had an Ipod shuffle and it didn't work. I stole my kids ipod (was more
> songs) and it worked great. It is nice to fly that way.

Give the kids their's back and get yourself a new one.
Now you can watch videos when you fly.

[John Clonts]

"john smith" > wrote in message ...
>> I had an Ipod shuffle and it didn't work. I stole my kids ipod (was more
>> songs) and it worked great. It is nice to fly that way.
>
> Give the kids their's back and get yourself a new one.
> Now you can watch videos when you fly.

Let me know when they have live NOAA radar available on it!!