Ipod hates to fly

Question

I got my Ipod mainly because I travel a lot and thought it would be nice for those long flights. The problem is my ipod hates to fly. Every time I try to use it during a flight after only a couple of songs it locks up. I returned it to the apple store, they gave me a new one and on the very first flight it did the same thing. During lockup it totally drains the battery in just a short time. I have a 30G ipod.
Anyone else have an issue like this or any suggestions. At this point I feel like my ipod is a $400 paper weight.

Answer 1

OK....lets see doing a search likethat yielded 147 hits for last year (search criteria IPOD).
Of those posts I would say half (lets say 73) deal with battery life (will the ipod last xx hours), headphones, chargers, etc.
The other half (74) of the posts would deal with ipod problems during flight and of those you need to weed out the actual post that started the thread and not the responses....so lets say we get 37..... and there is a higher incidence of 60 GB ipods reported with this problem than 30 gb ipods.
37 unique posts of actual problems with ipod during flights....thats pretty low for a device that sold (according to Apple) 22 million ipods in 2005. Lets say that the sold the same amount of ipods last year.....22 million and of those 22 lets say 147 failed during flight....the percentage is too small to calculate. On the other hand searching for firmware problems using the same criteria yield 500 hits just last year.
Checking another good source of information (the ilounge.com forums) and searching on airplane on the ipod with video problems forum) yields just 30 hits.... so if we add 30 plus 147 = 177 and lets assume that those 177 posts are actual problems thats still 177 problematic ipods out of 22 million...do you see a pattern here....the incidence of this issue is too small to measure.
Of course that those not mean that there could not be a problem with a certain batch, but to call it widespread is a little extreme.
There are more unique posts about problems with upgrade firmware (back in the 1.1 days with the 60GB ipods) that with this problem.
Also I would think that if an airline cabin is not pressurized properly, we would have bigger problems than a broken ipod. Even if the cabin is pressured to make us feel that we are at 8000 feet (instead of 30,000) there would be people on the plane suffering from Altitude Sickness, which, based on the individual can start at those 8,000 feet.
Mr. Kaya4fish has been unlucky...he got a bad ipod...and a little bit more unlucky since the replaced ipod was also bad. He should try to get a new one and see if the problem repeats itself.
Maybe the definition of "lots of posts" could be a little deceiving....this particular thread for example has 2 unique posts reporting this issue out of 13....it can be perceived as common because when things work you do not see people saying "hey I went on a trip around the world and my ipod worked fined" or "I upgraded to firmware xyz and I did not have any issues etc".
but ok....in summary this user has a problem and he needs to get a new ipod to correct it....no use blowing making the problem bigger than what it actually is.