I need to record aircraft audio to a GoPro. What is the best connecting harness or wiring diagram to use? Would like to plug into the headphone jack in the rear seat while flying. Any advice or link to a harness would be great. Thanks!
Hi Terry,I need to record aircraft audio to a GoPro. What is the best connecting harness or wiring diagram to use? Would like to plug into the headphone jack in the rear seat while flying. Any advice or link to a harness would be great. Thanks!
https://www.amazon.com/Nflightcam-Audio-Solution-GoPro-Hero5/dp/B01MT3Q50Y/
I've used the method Paul suggests with good success, but with my Hero3+ and the nflightcam cable, the sound quality is much better.
I successfully use the nflightcam cable for my GoPro8, and an external standalone “USB-type battery pack” to give the camera many more minutes of recording time.
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I haven't been terribly excited about messing with video on my plane, but a recent incident with an overly-sensitive (a/k/a "Karen") Bonanza driver now has me considering the installation of some sort of automotive style traffic cam on my RV. The guy tattled on me to a local tower controller saying I was doing aerobatics and cut him off doing 200kts. I flicked him a plus/minus 30 degree wing wag because he was told to expect to follow me and he couldn't seem to find me. He claimed I was "completely knife-edged" when I passed him doing 200kts. Now my RV-3 is one heck of a performer, but not quite capable of knife-edged flight at 200kts! :-/ Also not sure I ever passed him or cut him off because he was, by his own report, 3 miles behind me.
Nothing ever came of it, but things like this scare me because all it takes is one overly-sensitive do-gooder to cause a whole bunch of stress in my life. I fly for a living so I don't need this kind of thing. Flying a really fast, little red airplane capable of speeds, climbs and roll rates in excess of most single-engine spam cans tends to attract attention even when I fly it like an airliner--as I do when I'm in the view of other aircraft or anywhere near a public airport.
.. I've always wished someone would make an adaptor cord with a small built-in mic and volume control to mix ambient sound and cockpit audio into one camera. I've tried capturing audio on a hard disc recorder and syncing it but that's a pain, and rigging an audio mixer seems ridiculous. I might just have to use two cameras and mix the audio in post.