I Now Have A Cockpit Voice Recorder

I was out at the Annual Texins Flying Club Fall Picnic this morning and took the time to experiment with my the voice recorder that works with my 60GB iPod w/ Video... the voice recorder has a line-in feature, so all I tried a 1/8" - 1/8" cord along with a 1/8" to 1/4" adapter to plug into the aircraft headset input. I wasn't optimistic about it working because I was worried about attenuation and gain and other audio issues that I no nothing about, but I thought I would try it anyway.

I just went into one of the club planes while on the ground and flipped a couple of switches to get power to the control panel and attempted to record some audio of the tower talking to aircraft in the area. Click below to listen to the results.

Listen Now:

Success!!! I did do a little bit of editing to cut out some of the dead air between transmissions.

This means that, in the future, I should be able to paint an audio picture of what it's like to go on a flight from beginning to end.