Ok, this may sound a little crazy.....

[Steve Berry]

But I know many of us probably do it, even subconsciously. What song do you fly to? That is, what song, if any, do have going through your head while your flying. Something that helps you keep pace, time the maneuvers, etc. For me, it's LSU drum cadences and occasionally 80s electronica. Good steady beats that help me time handle movements.

Additionally, let's try to put different types of music to different forms of control line.

Example:

Combat = dubstep, particularly Skrillex. Chaotic, noisey, not quite sure what's going on.
Scale = classical waltz, Beethoven, slow and steady for careful choreography
Racing = Flight of the Bumblebee, and anything else with a very fast beat (130+ BPM)
Carrier = starts fast, slows waaaaaaaaaaay down, then a furious finish.
Stunt = steady driving beat with relatively uniform pacing. I'm thinking something by John Carpenter, like the theme to Escape From New York, or The Thing

Just a random thought to help get through the day.

Steve

[Brad LaPointe]

Taps when I crash .
Brad

[john e. holliday]

I don't worry about songs when flying.  My worry is staying vertical.

[John Park]

I'm glad somebody else does this - it must mean I'm not entirely daft (as we say in England).  The music playing in my head when I fly a small zippy model (Peacemaker with 2.5cc diesel) is the old jazz standard, Panama, recorded by Chris Barber's Jazz Band during a famous concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1956. You can hear it on YouTube.  What goes with a bigger, flapped model on longer lines is, believe it or not, the Blue Danube waltz.

[Mike Haverly]

Sometimes "Imagine" by John Lennon, many times "Stayin' Alive", Bee Gees.

[gene poremba]

 Queen, "Another one bites the dust"......Gene

[FLOYD CARTER]

Not a song,. But I constantly think, "Everyone's watching.;  So don't screw up!"  (but sometimes I do)

[Jim Carter]

Taps when I crash .
Brad

[Randy Powell]

Various metal and some blues.

[Ed Carlaw]

Blood,Sweat, & Tears Spinning Wheel.

[proparc]

This is a great thread. Its no secret that a lot of great stunt flyers play instruments. Stunt flying for me is like a cadence to my guitar playing. I got to meet the late great Albert King and, we talked at length about the blues and guitar playing. Coming down from an overhead eight close to the ground for me,is like the hit of a bass when the music is grooving hard. A good flight is like a hard Chicago blues groove on a Saturday night. I hear those sounds in my head when I am at the handle.

[Jim Kraft]

Wild balsa wood flower. On my heaver planes, Freight train freight goin so fast------------------------

[Steve Berry]

Keep it up guys. This is exactly what I was talking about. Whether we admit it or not, most of us have some music going in our heads while we fly to help keep cadence.

Steve

[Avaiojet]

It's interesting that this was mentioned.

Steve is correct, there are benefits to humming a song to yourself.

As far back as the 70's I had students, I taught tennis BTW, sing to themselves.

With some students it was like magic.

Calms an individual down and if practiced with your sport I'll bet it'll help.

I'm not the only tennis instructor that offered this tactic with instruction.

[Will Hinton]

I only hear the music of the PA75, and I'm alwasy telling myself, "Okay, two laps now, outside loops are next, " or whatever the next manuevor is, then I'm coaching as to what the latest glich is I've been putting into that partuicular manuevor.  No time for music, it would distract me.

[Dave Adamisin]

A song I used to play in my head when I was riding motocross, Elton John, "Funeral For a Friend". Starts slow and rich and builds to a rockin body and ending.. keeps me awake...

[Bob Hunt]

How about Rodney Crowell's song - made famous by Emmy Lou Harris - "Till I gain control again"

The famed airshow pilot, Jim Roberts used to fly his Long Easy aerobatic routine to this song. I once asked him if anybody got the joke; he said, "Very few..."

Bob Hunt

[Jim Mynes]

Not a whole song, just one line;

“Call the doctor, I think I’m gonna crash...”

[Steve Helmick]

Jake Bugg…."Broken"    Steve



PS: Other days, it's George Thorogood & The Destroyers "The Sky Is Crying"

[bill bischoff]

Nobody's going to say "Pick up the Pieces" or "Goin' Down"? And where's Howard? This is right up his alley.

[Avaiojet]

THUNDERSTRUCK!!

[Terrence Durrill]

Sometimes "Imagine" by John Lennon, many times "Stayin' Alive", Bee Gees.

                     For Combat and Stunt (intense competition) ............this is the one .......  "WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN" - The Who  ...............          

                               

[Mike Lauerman]

Funny thread...I didn't think this occurred to anyone else! When I flew my full flapped stunter, (slowly) I DID think of the Blue Danube waltz...So graceful! But to 'dance' to the music, you got right out of the pattern sequence...The waltz turned into the Tango, albeit slow.
I play soprano sax, and think of playing fast riffs while flying. But, age is catching up, and the vertical stance (coupled with vertigo) I'm doing less laps!
Rubber outdoor cabin is becoming my 'new bag'.

[Chris McMillin]

Depends on my model or day, but Deep Purple's Highway Star was typical with the Golden Falcon.
Chris...

[Dick Byron]

Helter skeler .