In flight recorder

Has anyone ever made their own in-flight recorder? I'm curious how
this would be done. I don't think it would be that difficult if you
use a regular cassette in one of those small fire safes. Just
drill a small hole to accomadate the mic wire. But how would you hook
it up to the intercom?
Or would you have a small lapel mic attatched to your headset? Anyway,
has anyone tried this?
Lou

Lou wrote:
Has anyone ever made their own in-flight recorder? I'm curious how
this would be done. I don't think it would be that difficult if you
use a regular cassette in one of those small fire safes. Just
drill a small hole to accomadate the mic wire. But how would you hook
it up to the intercom?
Or would you have a small lapel mic attatched to your headset? Anyway,
has anyone tried this?
Lou

What possible purpose would you have for it? That's a lot of weight (the
safe) that will be of no use to anyone.

On Mar 21, 12:58 pm, "Lou" wrote:
Has anyone ever made their own in-flight recorder? I'm curious how

I did it during my IFR training week. I used a small mp3 player/
recorder and put the tiny mic inside my earcup of my headset. It
worked fine.

Hai Longworth

On Mar 21, 12:45 pm, "Longworth" wrote:
On Mar 21, 12:58 pm, "Lou" wrote:

Has anyone ever made their own in-flight recorder? I'm curious how

I did it during my IFR training week. I used a small mp3 player/
recorder and put the tiny mic inside my earcup of my headset. It
worked fine.

Hai Longworth

Thats perfect. It's a long way off, but when I finish my plane I
thought it would be cool to
record the first flights.
Lou
P.S., the safe was incase of disaster.

Lou wrote:
On Mar 21, 12:45 pm, "Longworth" wrote:
On Mar 21, 12:58 pm, "Lou" wrote:

Has anyone ever made their own in-flight recorder? I'm curious how

I did it during my IFR training week. I used a small mp3 player/
recorder and put the tiny mic inside my earcup of my headset. It
worked fine.

Hai Longworth

Thats perfect. It's a long way off, but when I finish my plane I
thought it would be cool to
record the first flights.
Lou
P.S., the safe was incase of disaster.

I have no problem with the idea of a recorder in the cockpit. I just see no
use for the safe.

On Mar 21, 3:25 pm, "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net
wrote:
Lou wrote:
On Mar 21, 12:45 pm, "Longworth" wrote:
On Mar 21, 12:58 pm, "Lou" wrote:

Has anyone ever made their own in-flight recorder? I'm curious how

I did it during my IFR training week. I used a small mp3 player/
recorder and put the tiny mic inside my earcup of my headset. It
worked fine.

Hai Longworth

Thats perfect. It's a long way off, but when I finish my plane I
thought it would be cool to
record the first flights.
Lou
P.S., the safe was incase of disaster.

I have no problem with the idea of a recorder in the cockpit. I just see no
use for the safe.



Ok, Ok, I was just thinking the worst possible ending of a flight.
The
safe was to protect the recorder from fire.
Lou
So I watch too much tv.

On Mar 21, 4:42 pm, "Lou" wrote:
On Mar 21, 12:45 pm, "Longworth" wrote:

On Mar 21, 12:58 pm, "Lou" wrote:

Has anyone ever made their own in-flight recorder? I'm curious how

I did it during my IFR training week. I used a small mp3 player/
recorder and put the tiny mic inside my earcup of my headset. It
worked fine.

Hai Longworth

Thats perfect. It's a long way off, but when I finish my plane I
thought it would be cool to
record the first flights.
Lou
P.S., the safe was incase of disaster.

Recording the sound should be the last thing on your mind when making
a first flight on an experimental aircraft. If you must, leave the
recording to someone else on the ground with a scanner.

Lou wrote:

On Mar 21, 3:25 pm, "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net
wrote:

Lou wrote:

On Mar 21, 12:45 pm, "Longworth" wrote:

On Mar 21, 12:58 pm, "Lou" wrote:

Has anyone ever made their own in-flight recorder? I'm curious how

I did it during my IFR training week. I used a small mp3 player/
recorder and put the tiny mic inside my earcup of my headset. It
worked fine.

Hai Longworth

Thats perfect. It's a long way off, but when I finish my plane I
thought it would be cool to
record the first flights.
Lou
P.S., the safe was incase of disaster.

I have no problem with the idea of a recorder in the cockpit. I just see no
use for the safe.




Ok, Ok, I was just thinking the worst possible ending of a flight.
The
safe was to protect the recorder from fire.

Put the recorder on a scanner or handheld on the
ground. It's safe and it's less distraction
for the pilot.

"Lou" wrote in message
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Has anyone ever made their own in-flight recorder? I'm curious how
this would be done. I don't think it would be that difficult if you
use a regular cassette in one of those small fire safes. Just
drill a small hole to accomadate the mic wire. But how would you hook
it up to the intercom?
Or would you have a small lapel mic attatched to your headset? Anyway,
has anyone tried this?

Here's how I do it:
http://sage1solutions.com/users/john/flights/cockpitvideo.htm

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Back when I was working as a flight test instrumentation engineer at the
USAF Test Pilot School, we were trying to figure out an easy way to
record audio. The easiest way we found, short of doing a modification
to the airplanes and including expensive flight-qualified recorders, was
to take a little audio-activated voice recorder and ran a small
microphone inside the ear cup of one of our headsets. We'd put the
small recorder in our pockets. It worked really well at catching
everything that was said through the intercom.

It's not a "fireproof" solution, but hopefully this might get you
thinking in other areas.

Rich
N734BV @ 75FL

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 09:58 -0700, Lou wrote:

Has anyone ever made their own in-flight recorder? I'm curious how
this would be done. I don't think it would be that difficult if you
use a regular cassette in one of those small fire safes. Just
drill a small hole to accomadate the mic wire. But how would you hook
it up to the intercom?
Or would you have a small lapel mic attatched to your headset? Anyway,
has anyone tried this?
Lou