camcorder recording Cessna intercom audio question

Marty,

We taped a video on ELT direction finding when I was in Civil Air Patrol
and got super clear audio. I used a headset converter that you use if
you are using home audio headsets in a plane. (I believe they are
available from Sporty's) It looked like a 35mm plastic film can with a
male plug on one end and a female on the other. I used a 1/4 to 1/8
adapter and then ran it to a old RCA VHS video recorder. I used a tripod
to stabilize the camera between the front seats so we could get a shot
of the ELT equipment.

This worked so good that we did it on one take and had crystal clear
audio of the faintest ELT whelp. Both pilots spoke on the intercom as
well and did not overload the audio.

Just my 2 cents.

Bart
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Marty from Sunny Florida wrote:
Help!

I tried recording the Nav/Com audio to my Sony camcorder in a c172. The gain
is so high it just sounds like saturated noise. I basically wired from the
co-pilot's headset jack a cable to the sony 'mic in' jack. Has anyone here
successfully recorded a flight with clean audio, and if so, how ?

Thanks,
Marty from Sunny South Florida



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