Flight Traning Voice Recorder with an Ipod!!

[Fever]

I have been trying to make this connection but havent been able to find any info or the right cable.

Does any one know about this...

A fellow CFI told me that at the Japan Airlines Academy in Napa, CA students have succesfully connected an IPOD or digital voice recorder to the airplane's intercomm as a cocpit voice recorder.

What a great flight training tool!!

Any input?

 

[7574EVER]

I used to have a student set up a video camera on a small tripod in the back seat and have it hooked up to the intercom. He would record every training flight from startup to shutdown and review them in between lessons. I think some of the videos are floating around on the internet now.

As long as the instructor knows the flight is being recorded I think it's a great idea. JUST MAKE SURE THEY KNOW YOU'RE DOING IT. I don't think I'd be happy with someone recording me without my knowledge. Things like that can open the instructor up to a lot of liability. I've never had a problem with it. I just like to know it's going on.

 

[avbug]

I know nothing about ipods, but I have used voice recorders while flight instructing. This has been primarily useful for students having radio problems. Recording a flight training session in a busy airspace area or terminal area allows the student to go back and listen not only to the radio traffic, but to his or her interaction with it, as a learning tool.

Be careful, however. Each training flight by it's nature includes reprimand or correction. This is proper, but one does not necessarily need to keep re-living one's reproof. For a student to review the same flight may prove more detrimental than it benefits. Also you may find that your own time spent reviewing the flight in person, is better than scouring a tape, in most cases. If your instruction workload is heavy, then taking the time to go back through tapes or recordings can be a tedious burden you just don't have the time to accomplish.

If you can make the recordings and catalog them on an external hard drive, they may prove useful records of the training you've provided. I've had two occasions, personally, when keeping accurate student records protected me legally by showing that I had done my job. Conversely, evidence is a two way street; be careful you don't retain records of instruction which could one day be used against you. Do your best, but never let the liabilty of your duties slip far from your thoughts.

 

[Fever]

How do you connect to the intercomm? Where do you get the cable???

 

[VW Pilot]

I don't think they are going to tell you.....

 

[can99]

there is one well know pilots shop called sportys have you tried looking at their catalog...you might be suprised... plus a little research and you will come across many others, or simply go to radio shack and buy a cable, with a double adapter for the out on the head set, you will find the input will work (in most intercom systems) perfectly and set you back less than $10, had that over 20 years ago and it worked perfectly... but we had tape recorders back then (f... I am old!... and we had new C152's back then)

 

[Princedietrich]

Don't spend a dime at Sporty's.

For one, that guy overcharges everything by a ridiculous margin.

Secondly, he's probably one of the most arrogant and self-important a-holes to ever walk the Earth. He doesn't deserve your money. He also fear-mongers and intimidates employees into doing things that are blatantly unsafe, and will instantly fire anyone who dares to stand their ground against him.