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Old January 26th 04, 06:41 PM
Frank Stutzman
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sean trost wrote:
have you considered using an IPOD type device ? basically an mp3 player
married to a portable hard drive and holds very large amount of music.
and can be plumbed into the intercom.


One of the guys on one of the Bonanza lists complained that his Ipod
skipped at altitude. One of the other guys happened to be a hard disk
engineer and explained that this would probably be expected at high
(greater than about 10,000 feet) altitudes. The disk heads float on a
cushion of air. At high altitude there isn't enough air density to keep
the heads floating reliably.

No personal knowledge of this, just repeating what I heard.

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Frank Stutzman
Bonanza N494B "Hula Girl"
Hood River, OR