can fighter pilots listen to their iPods on the job?

I remember watching the French movie Les Chevaliers Du Ciel and seeing the one scene where the character Ipod (guess where he got his call sign from) cracks out an iPod while in flight and starts up a tune while on a mission off the Libyan coast!



I know its just a movie but is it possible for real fighter pilots to do that?

In the documentary Soundtrack to War for instance the drivers of an M1A1 Abrams tank described how they could hook their CD player up to part of the tanks internal communication system (the Charlie box), now simply listening to an iPod would be a lot less complicated.

I sincerely doubt it would be possible in real life after looking at this shot of a pilot taking off in a Eurofighter Typhoon.



Good luck fitting a pair of ear phones in there, but still think about that, it would be a pretty cool thing to do!