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How to Connect My Airplane Camera Audio to the Intercom

A small aircraft uses special plugs to connect the intercom---more often referred to as the radios. The headset portion of the radios plug directly into these connections. The intercom-radio system has hot-connection abilities that allow for external recording or talking devices to plug directly into the radio. Adding a camera with audio lets you record your flight or the conversations in the cockpit.

Intercom-radio adapter---for fixed wing aircraft

Instructions

- 1
  Plug the two connector pins from the radio adapter into any of the aircraft radio plug connectors. Be sure you are using a fixed wing adapter and not a helicopter adapter. Look at the pins and see that there are two different sizes indicating it is a fixed wing adapter.
- 2
  Plug the cords from your camera directly into the plugs on the adapter. On the other set of plugs at the adapter, plug in the headset pins.
- 3
  Turn on the avionics switch along the aircraft panel along with the master switch to test the radio connections before going through the pre-flight and engine start-up procedures.