Poll for your plane's audio sound

[crxcte]

I've had people ask me if my audio is stereo or mono.  Just wondered how everyone else had their planes wired.  Mine is mono sound.

Mono-same sound in each ear cup of your headset.

Stereo-the sound is divided between the ear cups.

[scottfromiowa]

Stereo-through PS Engineering PM-3000 Stereo Intercom and Bose Headset X/David Clark 13.5S headsets. (front seats only) Rear jacks have NOT been upgraded.

[jlunseth]

Stereo through a PMA 8000B.  In the Bose headsets there is a dip switch to select mono or stereo, and the switch is set to mono by default.  Needs to be set to stereo or the volume level will be really faint.  Somebody else on here told me about that, and it fixed my volume problem.  The switch is in the control, behind the battery.

[flight2000]

I'm stereo on all four sets through the PMA 8000B.  The DC 13.5S have the same S/M switch.

Brian

[flhelo]

Stereofor the front. PMA 7000B audio panel with Bose and DC. Backseat is mono.

[DaV8or]

I'm not sure. My audio panel is a Garmin GMA 340 and is capable of stereo, but I really can't for sure that it is wired that way. I don't have any stereo inputs to it.

[flyby201]

Quote: jlunseth

Stereo through a PMA 8000B.  In the Bose headsets there is a dip switch to select mono or stereo, and the switch is set to mono by default.  Needs to be set to stereo or the volume level will be really faint.  Somebody else on here told me about that, and it fixed my volume problem.  The switch is in the control, behind the battery.

[tony]

Stereo-PS Engineering PM-3000 Stereo Intercom, music input wired up and it goes to all four jacks for the passsengers.

[lahso]

I have the GMA 340, and wired for stereo.

[carusoam]

So I have the Nat 4 place stereo system with DC 13.4S head sets to match....

I went to plug in the I-pod.......Where does the ipod go?????????

Nobody installed the music input.....?

I have two follow up questions for those that answered this thread....

[1] How many people listen to music while flying?

[2] Is anyone so comfortable with their IFR skills / system capabilities to listen to music while in the clouds?

I am thinking that I can add the 50 cent input line during the next annual, but I am not sure that it will ever get used....

Best regards,

-a-

[IFlyMooney]

I have to admit that I listen to my ipod while flying cross country, even in the clouds.  I am always talking to ATC, whether I'm VFR or IFR, so I have gotten used to being able to listen to both.  I also usually fly by myself on these long trips, so I do not have any other distractions. Another factor that I think makes it eaiser for me is that I fly 200 to 300 hours per year.  Not sure I would recommend it to a pilot who only occasionally flys IFR. 

[DaV8or]

Quote: carusoam

[1] How many people listen to music while flying?

[2] Is anyone so comfortable with their IFR skills / system capabilities to listen to music while in the clouds?

[crxcte]

I don't listen to music flying IFR or VFR.  I have tried tuning in the ADF to a local but it was more pain than it was worth.  There is really too many things to do even on long flights and if music was on it would be annoying.

NO

NO

[Jeff_S]

I'm with those who prefer to listen to the plane and make sure I'm paying attention to ATC, as on most long flights I am either IFR or at least have flight following. And I'm not a big music junkie anyway, generally preferring peace and quiet to some constant background noise. On long car trips, once we get out of range of my home radio station, I'm as likely to just turn it off completely and get lost in thought.

[Ned Gravel]

I am a no-music kind of driver too.  It would be OK for pax, but my girl is my only long-distance passenger and she either wants to comment on scenery, or talk, or (quite often) sleep (and the bumpier the better for her).  For others, it is normally fam flights and no need for music to drown out the OOhs and AAhs.

When I am alone, I normally like to spend my time prepping for the next step, especially when I am in the soup.  Anticipated frequency changes, AWOS, ATIS, ETAs, ETEs, waypoint idents, fuel burns, CHTs, EGTs, time to next change of tanks, TAS, nearest airfield (in-case) etc. 

Hey!!!  I am an engineer and engineers like working with numbers.

Someday, when I have 3000 hours IFR and the cockpit flows are all rote (for whatever situation arises) and music helps focus things (like in the movie Iron Eagles) - maybe.  But not today.  There are situations where music does do that for me, but flying is not yet one of them.

[MooneyMitch]

For me, I cannot listen to music without totally listening to music.  It is a major distraction for me when I am trying to concentrate on anything, whether flying the airplane or otherwise.  Maybe it's my male brain, I don't know.  Girls are supposed to be better at multi-tasking than males..............hmmm. 

I completely love the experience of flying and being up the air.  Planning, following through with planning, analyzing as I travel along, looking out at the Earth from the airplane, watching the instruments, looking for traffic, etc. 

Certainly we all enjoy things in our own ways and music can undoubtedly enhance flying for others. 

[Joe Zuffoletto]

I just upgraded to a PMA8000BT and LOVE it. The stereo sound through my Lightspeed Zulu headset is nothing short of spectacular, and being able to stream music from my iPhone over Bluetooth is way too cool. I listen to music when VFR or IFR in VFR conditions, depending on the amount of radio chatter going on. I never listen to music when IFR in IMC.