Head set location

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Some are getting the headset jack wells and placing them in the side wall of the center console. Others, like myself, have put the jacks through the luggage bag immediately inside the triangle windows behind the pilot and or the copilot side. I fashioned up an aluminum plate that mounted to the air frame then installed the wiring. I then used a solder iron and burned holes through the luggage bag, inserted the limo plugs and made a plate from aluminum that I painted up and labeled. The only thing holding the cover plate on is the retaining nut that holds the limo connector in.

[av8rps]

I put my headset jacks behind me in my Model 4, and regret it because they are hard to access in flight.

So my advice is to make sure you can reach the jacks easily if you have to get at them while in flight. The console idea mentioned sounds like a great location to me as that keeps the cords between pilot and passenger and not between the door and the occupants,

[airlina]

Never liked cords laying everywhere in the cockpit, so I mounted my jacks behind me ( see pic) and for 16 years this has worked well , keeps the cord out of the way. On a side note I recently found a cheap way to have a bluetooth headset without spending $1000 bucks on a new headset. My old DRE headsets have worked fine except I could never get audio from my navigation tablet- Obstacle warnings and now with ADSB traffic alerts. Tried many things -earbuds that plugged into the tablet with the buds in the headset earphones-FAIL, 1/8"plug from tablet into music input of my intercom-FAIL (not enough volume) This little gizmo called a bluetooth receiver cost about 20 bucks on amazon and plugs into my music input and all of a suddden my headset is bluetooth capable to my tablet-volume is great and I now can pick up the warnings as well as music. A great low cost solution. Bruce N199CL

[Dave S]

I had to chuckle at the name of the thread........Normally my headset location is on top of my head

Seriously, most rental planes I previously used had the plugs on the bottom of the panel on the outside edges of the panel near the door and I though that was the worst place - cable gets in the way for just about everything.

Put ours in the baggage bay; and, that makes it really nice to keep the cables out of the way; but, it is not too good if a person has to mess with the plugs while in flight.

Often though how it would work in the center on the console.

[rosslr]

Here is what did. ligthspeeds with lemo plugs - cable tied the controllers up the top just forward of head so i can see to adjust if needed. you can see there is sufficient chord to run it backwards and then down with the fuel lines so there is no chord in front of me. I store the headsets in the little pockets in the luggage container. I hated having all the chords around my knees in other planes! And wiring with a lemo plug means I need no batteries for the noise cancelling.

cheers

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