My pioneer radio has a iPod connector cable or a standard USB Female cable (ie Plug in the iPod Sync Cable). Plug an iPod into either one of the cables and the radio reads the iPod just fine. Plug non-ipods into the USB and it will read them, but not use the iPod like menu functions, or read the tags correctly. My point is: it doesn't take a dock connector to do it, just a USB port and the owner needs his/her iPod cable, assuming the software in the airplane is designed to read iPods correctly.