Jay Honeck wrote:
: I personally use the portable CD-MP3 player "discman" that I bought in 2001.
: If I'm solo I connect it to my Lightspeed XC directly so I get better fidelity and
: stereo than the mono PC4 intercom in the plane. Solid state might be nice, but I get
: burned out on the 10x CD's of MP3's I've got in the case... can't imagine if I were
: limited to 1 or 2 worth on a memory stick.

: It's funny -- we've got half a dozen CDs that we always seem to listen
: to when we fly, and we rarely seem to get tired of them. I suppose
: it's because most of our flights are 30 minutes or so, which means
: you'll hear (at most) six or seven songs. (We maintain a sterile
: cockpit in the pattern, so that whacks off probably ten minutes of
: flight time right there.)

It seems like when I'm flying, it's one of the following:

- Quickie 20 minute flight for fun, sunset, or taking a non-flier for a quick spin around the patch
- A local "training" flight (hood work, safety pilot)... to busy for music
- Either a 2-hour or a 5-6 hour cross country to see family in Columbus, OH or Milwaukee, Wi, resp.... need enough music
to where a CD or two of MP3's goes stale after a trip or two.


: Now, with XM radio, I suspect we'll not be using the CDs much anymore.
: We've gone through and picked out the half a dozen stations that play
: "our" music (60s, 70s, 80s rock, classical, blues, and 40s swing), and
: I doubt we'll ever hear the same song twice.
: --
Sounds nice, but rather overkill for flying music.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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