I scored a headset mixer/amp from the recent ATR sim tear-down, which I earmarked for the Skyhawk. Tonight I did a bit of planning on how best to implement it, and what I wanted it to do. After a quick sketch of what I wanted to achieve I poked around in my box of audio ‘stuff’ and came up with a couple of candidates for MIC mixers.
My plan is to have;
– A Headset for the instructor
– 2 headset connectors in the cockpit, one for the U-174 plug of a headset or helmet and mask, and the other with two 3.5mm jacks for the ‘replica’ helmet I normally use in the sim)
– An ‘Observer’ Headset with option of ‘listen only’
Mixers from my ‘Audio stash’…. Both have history; The top one is out of Russell’s 767 and Macchi sims, and the lower is one I used when I first played around with audio/video editing back in the 80’s!
As the plan develops I may end up using the 8 channel mixer Andy kindly donated to the cause, which up till now has been running the entertainment system in the man cave….