Alright, who knows how to rig an iPod to ICS (interphone)?

[four o two]

Just like the title says. I'm just bored & wondered if there was a write-up anywhere.

Honestly though, I think it'd make for some good distraction while trying to execute EP's or something in the sim.

 

[kmac]

Why not just wear the earpiece in your helmet (or under the headset)? Otherwise, I'd talk to the local AEs. They're usually good for that type of thing. Be careful though, I wouln't want to splice a cord from your helmet.

*Some of our aircrewmen have adapters made to plug into the now non-existent hoist plug. It's great for bringing your laptop in the back and watching movies.

 

[HercDriver]

It depends on the system in your aircraft. It is standard in the CG Herc community to have music piped over your headset through the ICS system so you can listen to tunes throughout those long all night searches looking fer smugglers/migrants. This is done by a "patch cord" through the hot mic system.

Here is a write-up on how to make a patch cord:

http://www.heyeng.com/patchchord.html

 

[HeloBubba]

This was actually pretty straightforward back in the LAMPS Mk I days. Connecting a standard SPH3 helmet to the H-2 ICS required the use of a special pigtail. It wasn't too hard to get one's hands on an extra pigtail and splice in an old headphone plug for a walkman. Inside the pigtail was 5 wires (2 for your mic, 1 for each ear speaker, and a common ground for the ear speakers) and inside the headphone plug was 3 wires (1 for each ear speaker, and a common ground for the ear speakers). So the only trick was to make sure that each wire's "use" was matched up correctly (left to left, right to right, common ground to common ground). Once that was done, one could play his or her walkman and hear it only in their helmet. The great thing was that the line voltages for the walkman and the ICS were different enough that you could still hear important ICS comms over the music. I still remember listening to "Who Are You?" by The Who while making an approach to Home Plate.

While I am certain that some of this doesn't apply nowadays, it may still provide inspiration for your own situation.

 

[HeloBubba]

This is done by a "patch cord" through the hot mic system.

Here is a write-up on how to make a patch cord:

http://www.heyeng.com/patchchord.html

This looks like everyone on the aircraft gets to hear the music. Add just one more piece to this (a female jack for your helmet to plug IN to) and you get the music all to yourself. Especially if one of the stick monkeys up front is not progressive enough to allow tunes to played over the ICS.

 

[MasterBates]

I have heard rumors of a device known as THP-3.

Rumor has it that it plugs into the instructor ICS and plays on ICS.

Just rumors, never seen/heard it.

 

[FlyinSpy]

In the mighty Prowler, you just take your Ipod and a Belkin FM transmitter (the same one you can use in your car), drape it over the scanner, and bingo - tunes for everyone who selects SCAN on the ICS.

One of our guys had the book on tape "No True Glory", about the battle of Fallujah. Weird experience to orbiting over Fallujah while listening to the book.....

 

[PropStop]

Talk to your AT's, they're the masters of the ICS system.

I bought my IFT a bottle of some goldish liquid and magically the next flight we had tunes. He even had a few songs he'd play when certain people boarded the plane. Mine was, "I'm an Asshole"... not sure how to take that one...

 

[kmac]

I feel like an idiot. I meant to say ATs and not AEs. So what DO AEs actually do??

 

[Cavt]

You can also do it if you happen to have CEP's installed on your helmet, also can rig it up so you can record your flights.

 

[MasterBates]

AFCS, Flight Instrumentation, Non-'tronic electron using devices??

 

[kmac]

AFCS, Flight Instrumentation, Non-'tronic electron using devices??

AFCS? What's that? (I'm kidding, it just never works)
Flight instrumentation = AEs
Non-'tronic stuff? What's that? Oh you mean those wires that arc and catch fire? Yeah, that must be an AE thing.

 

[PropStop]

Generators, wiring, TR's, transformers, gyros, flight instruments, that's your AE's. AT's are radios, navaids, computers, etc.

 

[Spot]

On P-3s, tell your IFT to do this:
Get adapters to go from S-Video (out of the laptop) to RCA, to Coax and then to Triax so it can go into the VDC. (I chose the EOW input so that flight could watch the movie also and the tube could see the video while the TMS was up).
As for audio, I'm sure the IFT will know how to rig a handmic to hotmic and wire a headphone jack into that. (The only bad thing is if you have a bad DCI/DAI in your ICS, it can screw up your laptop headphone jack. I learned that the hard way).
Just put the laptop across from SS3 and run the video cable right to the VDC and the audio through the rack to SS1 station's ICS. (Make sure your acoustic guys know not to switch the controls to all or you'll be blasting the laptop audio to everyone).
If you have any questions, just PM me.
Hope my advice helps on those long transits.

 

[Cavt]

On P-3s, tell your IFT to do this:
Get adapters to go from S-Video (out of the laptop) to RCA, to Coax and then to Triax so it can go into the VDC. (I chose the EOW input so that flight could watch the movie also and the tube could see the video while the TMS was up).
As for audio, I'm sure the IFT will know how to rig a handmic to hotmic and wire a headphone jack into that. (The only bad thing is if you have a bad DCI/DAI in your ICS, it can screw up your laptop headphone jack. I learned that the hard way).
Just put the laptop across from SS3 and run the video cable right to the VDC and the audio through the rack to SS1 station's ICS. (Make sure your acoustic guys know not to switch the controls to all or you'll be blasting the laptop audio to everyone).
If you have any questions, just PM me.
Hope my advice helps on those long transits.

Ummm...in non technical major english please? :icon_smil