Is there a radio on an aeroplane??

Question

if there is how do you get signal???

Answer 1

Discounting communications radio, and satellite entertainment radio, which I personally have never heard of, it would be very difficult to get normal radio stations. I don't think Radio One reaches the USA, to use one example. You would be out of range within minutes and would need to constantly be changing frequencies. I think the flight crew might feel they had better things to do with their time.

Answer 2

There are multiple radios in an aircraft, the signal comes in via the antennae. Most of them look like blades, but there are tube and wire antennae as well.

Answer 3

What kind of radio? Good-time or two-way? What kind of plane? Commercial airliner or private plane?

Not enough info.

Answer 4

Absolutely!

Answer 5

Some do but you have to pay for the ear phones. The same way you do on earth, the signal travels by air.

Answer 6

Yes there are, in fact there are a couple of radios.  All the nav aids with the exception of GPS work on radio frequencies.  If you are shooting and ILS you are using a radio frequency.  Some private planes have XM radios on them now that you can hear though your headset and cut over to the com radio when someone starts to talk on it.  They also have CD players that do the same.

Answer 7

As well in some Cessna 172, there is XM satellite radio that you can listen to.

Answer 8

Some have tv's and most have xm satellite radio which gets its reception from a satellite. Delta even has Satellite tv

Answer 9

Depends who you fly with, but if you bring headphones, you'll be able to listen to one in the plane.

Answer 10

There is always a radio on an aeroplane. It's used by the pilot to communciate with Air Traffic Control. These sets are normally in the VHF band and work on frequencies slightly above that of normal broadcast "FM" entertainment transmissions.

When flying over open countryside between airports communcation is maintained by Area Coverage stations. These are widely spaced radio sites (you can sometimes see them in remote fields).

The ATC radio system is designed so that transition between the coverage areas of each of these stations is "seamless" to the user. This is actually quite a difficult thing to achieve technically so it's expensive.

When flying over water out of range of these stations communcation is done using long range Low Frequencey (Long Wave) radio (not short wave).

It is not normally possible to recieve normal entertainment radio  VHF broadcasts (FM) on a fast moving aeroplane. This is because the aircraft will be continually moving out of range of the local transmitters and the reciever would need continous re-tuning. That's not a practical economic proposition.

Sometimes you can pick up a local radio station and listen for a few minutes before the signal breaks up. It depends on your speend, altitude and atmospheric conditions.

However, someone may design a Digital Radio reciever that will manage to do the job at a reasonable (domestic) cost.

Satellite reception would suffer from the movment of the aircraft. You'd have to keep moving the dish! Hardly a practical proposition.

Note that some aircraft use the GPS satellite system to navigate. These satellites are in a very different set of orbits from the geostationary ones that Sky use. Please don't confuse the two systems. I see that at least one of the answers already has got confused.

You don't need a dish accurately pointing at the satellite for GPS but you for Sky and other "satellite broadcasters".

The music channel on most civil airliners is not a real radio station, so don't get confused by this either.

Answer 11

No, How Do You Expect To Get A Signal At That Altitiude going at maybe 400mph?

There is a 'Music Channel' at the right I think of your armrest.

Answer 12

yes, they have "radio" (music) channel - you just plug in your headphones at the seat arm rest.

No you cannot use just regular radio.  You are traveling at 400 mph at 30,000 feet

good Luck...

Answer 13

Of course they do.

I'm an expert on airplanes.

Answer 14

There are multiple ( navigation/location -communication - entertainment ) radios on aircraft. And don't worry about how fast or how high you are. If we can bounce a radio signal off the moon or the space shuttle, catching up to an aeroplane should not be a problem.

Answer 15

i think if you have one that gets signal from a saterlight it might work. They have tv

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