Well there it is sports fans!
Tom/Bruce, I totally agree with your comment on hearing, and how important
making use of this sense is if you want to make the best of any flight: Part of
the "Body" , in the trilogy I earlier mentioned.
Unfortunately for me, hearing deterioration due to age (and earlier listening
to rock music at the threshold of pain - but not in a glider!), has put me at a
disadvantage here.
Mind you Modern Jazz music is more to my taste these days. However I do not
have any argument with TN on his more classical choices. All listening done
going to, and leaving the airfield only, of course!
Simon and JR, I just loved your contributions to the discussion! Akai's and
guitars in the cockpit indeed!!! What a boggle!
Three part harmony in a Schweizer is something to think about, but what about
"doing it for real" closer to home in Beaufort's Zephyrus? Special effects,
obviously -but I leave that to the many pundits the gliding movement has in
the advertising game. Might even get it onto SBS or the ABC, as a minimal cost
promotional effort for gliding?? Thinking outside the square and all that??!!
God knows, we sure need it! As I have recently said in another post, everything
already tried to date, has proved to be a dismal failure.
Regards,
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: tom claffey
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Music while flying?
Hi Garry,
Top comp pilots are focused on finding lift and want no distractions.
It is all about finding and using energy in the sky.
As Bruce said, you can actually hear the core of a thermal if you try
hard enough!
I enjoy gliding too much to waste energy on music, I leave that to car
driving which I enjoy less than gliding and am not trying to be competitive
with.
Then again I am not really into music much.
Tom
--- On Fri, 15/4/11, gstev...@bigpond.com <gstev...@bigpond.com> wrote:
From: gstev...@bigpond.com <gstev...@bigpond.com>
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Music while flying?
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
<aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net>
Received: Friday, 15 April, 2011, 12:07 AM
Hi Patch & All,
I am with you bro!
But, perhaps for totally different reasons???
Aviators seem to be, in the main, a very pragmatic bunch. Glider
pilots, as a sub-group, also seem to fit this mould. The question "Where are
the poets of flight?" has been discussed on this forum in the past. As a matter
of interest, try Goggling "Joseph C Lincoln Award" to see one excellent
attempt to address the balance (although that is not exactly what the stated
goals of the award are about).
To get to the point, I pose the following question " Why in God's
name would you carry, and listen to, canned music whilst gliding?" Each time
you take a launch, you are potentially putting yourself in a special position
where you can resonate with the whole universe - Mind, Body, Soul, as one. As
such, the canned music is, at best, just distracting noise.
Think about it!
.... Especially if you have not been there!
.... But I suspect, you all know exactly what I am talking about.!
{From a competition pilot's view (a subset group that does not
exclude the above principle- quite the reverse in fact - if you are not at one
with the environment - you will not win), Tom Claffey's post on the subject is
relevant - Tom gives no reasons. Tom would you care to expound on your post,
for the uninformed?}
Regards,
Gary
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruth Patching"
<patch...@westnet.com.au>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
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Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Music while flying?
> Simple answer for me. NO. Never even contemplated it.
> Patch
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: bcole...@xstratacoal.com.au
> To: aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net
> Sent: Thursday, 14 April, 2011 12:52:02 PM GMT +10:00 Canberra /
Melbourne / Sydney
> Subject: [Aus-soaring] Music while flying?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm about to wire in a new transceiver and note it has an audio
input for your CD player, ipod etc. Which got me wondering....do any of you
listen to music while soaring? What music is it, or what would it be if you
did?
>
> Cheers, Ben
>
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