GyroRon
Former Gyro know it all
- Joined
- Oct 29, 2003
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- Location
- Fort Mill South Carolina
- Aircraft
- Vans RV4 / Dominator 582 Ultrawhite
- Total Flight Time
- ALOT
I Wanna Rock!...... While I am flying that is, and looking for some ideas on how to make it happen.
what I would like to do is be able to hook up a portable CD player in my plane so I hear the music while I am flying.
One option I have is to replace my planes intercom with one that has a music input - my current one does not have a input as far as I can tell. I would rather not do this as the ones that do have a input are 3-4 hundred bucks plus installation and there is a mess of wires behind the panel to fool with, no thanks!
Another option I found was a special adapter that plugs into the headphone jack on the plane, and the headset plugs into it, and pumps the music through to the headset. It will mute the music if someone else in the plane talks or a radio transmission is recieved. I am not sure I want this either cause it is about 175$- 200$ and it will only work for one headset, so if I am flying with a friend we can't jam out together!
Another option is to buy a new headset with a music input. I am liking this option best cause I have been wanting to get a ANR headset and there is a brand called Lightspeed that sells some units as cheap as 375$ and it is full ANR and has inputs for music and a cell phone. It will automatically mute the music if someone else in the plane talks through the intercom or a radio transmission is recieved. What I don't like is with this option my pasengers still won't be able to listen to the music, and of course I am not crazy about spending about 400$ with shipping even though I want a ANR headset.... Another thing I do like about this option is I could try to find a helmet that will fit over my headset and allow me to use my ANR headset in my gyro and if I want be able to put my CD player in my pocket and still jam! My current helmet has built in heasets, I guess I would sell it if I went with this option...
So does anyone have any other ideas they could offer? I wouldn't mind just some type of homemade radio shack jack gizmo that I could plug into the passengers headset jack so he could hear the music without the mute functions and so on, and be able to also plug the CD player into the adapter thingy they sell that does the mute functions, or even into the Lightspeed headsets - which I am pretty sure I will want to go ahead and buy now.
Ideas????????
what I would like to do is be able to hook up a portable CD player in my plane so I hear the music while I am flying.
One option I have is to replace my planes intercom with one that has a music input - my current one does not have a input as far as I can tell. I would rather not do this as the ones that do have a input are 3-4 hundred bucks plus installation and there is a mess of wires behind the panel to fool with, no thanks!
Another option I found was a special adapter that plugs into the headphone jack on the plane, and the headset plugs into it, and pumps the music through to the headset. It will mute the music if someone else in the plane talks or a radio transmission is recieved. I am not sure I want this either cause it is about 175$- 200$ and it will only work for one headset, so if I am flying with a friend we can't jam out together!
Another option is to buy a new headset with a music input. I am liking this option best cause I have been wanting to get a ANR headset and there is a brand called Lightspeed that sells some units as cheap as 375$ and it is full ANR and has inputs for music and a cell phone. It will automatically mute the music if someone else in the plane talks through the intercom or a radio transmission is recieved. What I don't like is with this option my pasengers still won't be able to listen to the music, and of course I am not crazy about spending about 400$ with shipping even though I want a ANR headset.... Another thing I do like about this option is I could try to find a helmet that will fit over my headset and allow me to use my ANR headset in my gyro and if I want be able to put my CD player in my pocket and still jam! My current helmet has built in heasets, I guess I would sell it if I went with this option...
So does anyone have any other ideas they could offer? I wouldn't mind just some type of homemade radio shack jack gizmo that I could plug into the passengers headset jack so he could hear the music without the mute functions and so on, and be able to also plug the CD player into the adapter thingy they sell that does the mute functions, or even into the Lightspeed headsets - which I am pretty sure I will want to go ahead and buy now.
Ideas????????