![]() ![]() ![]() What I found out was that the older iPods, like my Mini, usually work fine up to around 15-17K feet, so for most flying, they should work fine. You are correct about the new iPods using chips and not hard drives. I do a lot of hiking and this issue comes up a lot in the hiking mags. Of course the mini and nano iPods do not use a hard drive so they are better suited for the lower atmo and vibration in a little plane. I am not sure how it would handle negative pressure. Obviously it is designed for positive pressure. With a sealed case it should keep the pressure in the case at altitude. Right now they don't have a case for the Video iPods or older 3G iPods, however it is cool. In the link above, in the text towards the bottom is a video Well I came across this device for the G4 iPod. ![]() Regardless what if you could keep your G4 iPod in a pressurized container? Great they have these water proof "otter" cases but getting to the controls was an issue. That altitude is subject to debate but lets say some say as low as 10,000 feet, others higher, say FL180. The hard drive iPods are known to having some limitation of how high you can go, before there's an issue with lost air cushion between head and disk. ![]()
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