Although I doubt anyone here cares too much about my little joys, I have discovered a new source of entertainment. If you play Flight in windowed mode, using the full screen script talked about in the "How to use GMap as a popup within Flight full screen" tutorial....you can have your windows media player up as you fly. I recommend starting media player, right-click to options, Player tab, and check Keep Now Playing on top of other windows.

Then hit ctrl-2. it makes the player super small, and also fades in opacity when not being interacted with.

 

Then go grab Pink Floyd's Learning to Fly if you don't have it. You know, when Dave Gilmour got a bit happier and dreamier than Waters' angsty previous stuff. Plus, Gilmour was a super-avid pilot!

 

Or don't....I've having a ball flying and listening to my own music!!!!

Haha - of course...

 

Music while I drive to work, music when I ride a bike, and definitely music when I 'fly'.

 

Only this morning I was playing some of Enya's winter/Christmas music, flying the Cub over a thousand Alaskan Christmas trees, as I realised just how featureless Alaska can be in winter as rivers and lakes freeze over into an endless whiteness...

 

Cheers,

Nick

Y'all will think I am crazy, however I really kinda like the music in Flight. You know, the music that plays when you load up a cargo job, turn toward the destination and it plays for about 3 or 4 minutes. I always wished it played longer lol.

 

I can understand though, I may have to load up a playlist to play whilst running Flight. I have the Logitech G19 keyboard with a built in media player in the lcd screen, should work great for that.

"The Police...Synchronicity" Does it for me :o :o :o

 

Great ideas never go UN-listened.....

 

Jeff

My computer has a very nice sound-card going through some Klipsch Promedia speakers and subwoffer. The floor-rumbling growl of the bass as the engines do their thing is sound enough for me.

 

Add music, and I might go deaf in here! :P

My computer has a very nice sound-card going through some Klipsch Promedia speakers and subwoofer.

 

Same here, love the Klipsch Promedia system!

Eww... Windows Media Player for audio is awful. Poorly written, slow and very heavy in resource use. Up there with iTunes, which can't even play .FLAC files - fail.

 

Use Winamp, or even better Foobar2000 - an extremely light program written specifically for audio.

Pink Floyd's Learning to Fly

 

Thumbs up on that. I'm a long-time Floyd fan, even all their early pre-DSOTM stuff. The long track "Saucerful of Secrets" might be a good choice when doing some flying...

 

Gilmour was a super-avid pilot!

 

He had quite a collection of rare planes at one time, including one of those Red Arrows jets (Folland Gnat) and a P-51. His airplane business was called "Intrepid Aviation".

He had quite a collection of rare planes at one time, including one of those Red Arrows jets (Folland Gnat) and a P-51. His airplane business was called "Intrepid Aviation".

 

I didn't know that, very interesting!! I like Roger Waters as well, make no mistake. I may have gotten a bit tired of hearing about his father dying in the war. I thought Gilmour was a bit more intellectual, but I still love everything Waters turned out.

 

My new one is to listen to Zeppelin and fly through the skyscrapers in Honalulu, at sunset, in the RV-6. See how long you can stay under skyscraper height. Might add, TrackIR is a real helper for this, when planning where you're gonna turn in a hurry!

On "Learning to Fly", in the middle solo section, the pilot you hear talking to ATC is actually Nick Mason, recorded during one of his actual training flights. He and Gilmour both got their pilot's licenses around the same time. Mason has always been a race car fanatic, so his wanting to learn to fly is not surprising.

the pilot you hear talking to ATC is actually Nick Mason, recorded during one of his actual training flights.

 

I've always tried to make out what he's saying but I can't.

Clearly I am speaking to a real Floyd fan. I salute you sir.

Really does hearken back to the days when song lyrics had some substance, intellect and poetic value.

I heard him say that between the two interpretations, one being literally learning to fly an aircraft and the other learning to "fly" as a Floyd front-man in the absence of Roger Waters, the latter was correct.

I don't believe it. I think he's just writing about learning to pilot and the overwhelming desire to fly. At least that's my story and I'm stickin to it!