This is the audio log of my first flight with Windy City Flyers and my first attempt at blending cockpit audio with my own commentary. Definitely this podcast is a work in progress, so let me know any comments you have about the show.
The flight was awesome, and my post making tracks in the sky shows you our flight path, thanks to the AGL3080.
This is a very very basic lesson. We covered ascents, descents, turns, climbing and descending turns, slow flight, some ground reference work and an entire lesson without the DG. Who knew?
Hey Peter,
I’ve just been checking out your blog. Good luck on your flight training, I’m sure you’ll do well. By the way, how did you record that audio from the cockpit. I thought that was pretty awesome. I’m interested in being able to do that.
Hi Brandon. Thanks for checking in and listening!
I have an iRiver IFP-899 MP3 recorder. It has an 1/8″ input, and I connect it to one of the 1/4″ headphone jacks in the back seat to capture the audio using a regular cable with 1/4″ at one end and 1/8″ at the other. Basically I just set it to record the audio and forget about it. The trickiest part is getting the level setting right (I use a setting of about 24 I think), but once you have it set, it’s simple to get all the audio.
Excellent idea. This will definately help with radio calls.