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An audio system that may include a flight-worthy electronics package that connects into the airborne electronics of a passenger aircraft, and to that aircraft's passenger system. The audio system may provide passengers with a variety of audio information. The audio information may include a variety

An audio system that may include a flight-worthy electronics package that connects into the airborne electronics of a passenger aircraft, and to that aircraft's passenger system. The audio system may provide passengers with a variety of audio information. The audio information may include a variety of information tailored to phases of the flight plan of the aircraft. Thus, during takeoff, the system may describe the flight plan of the aircraft, whereas during descent, the system may alternately describe the distance to destination and time to destination. Other information that may be described, as desired, may include ground speed, outside air temperature, altitude, time or distance to a point of interest, and points of interest of the area that the aircraft is flying over at any particular moment. The audio system may cause these sequences of descriptions to recite automatically as determined by the preprogramming of the system. Passengers may also be provided with audio destination information. The audio system may describe the terminals and the aircraft gates. The audio system may also identify the gate at which the aircraft will be arriving, connecting flight information, including describing flight numbers, times, gates, and destination.

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1. An aircraft passenger audio information system connectable to receive information data specific to aircraft flight characteristics and connectable to an audio delivery system, the audio information system comprising:a memory device for storing the information data that is input to the audio infor

1. An aircraft passenger audio information system connectable to receive information data specific to aircraft flight characteristics and connectable to an audio delivery system, the audio information system comprising:a memory device for storing the information data that is input to the audio information system, a data control unit responsive to an aircraft flight characteristic for retrieving the information data from the memory device, and outputting the information data to the audio delivery system, wherein the information data comprises at least one of a point of interest and a proximity to a point of interest, and wherein the point of interest comprises at least one of a city along a flight path of the aircraft, a landform, an equator, an international dateline, a north pole and a south pole.