Aircraft Headset Jack Wiring

Choose a location for each pair of headphone and microphone jacks one pair each for the pilot and co pilot and one pair each for up to four passengers.

Aircraft headset jack wiring. General aviation headphone plug. This video will demonstrate how to assemble an aircraft microphone and headphone jack. This headset plug design was in common usage in at least a couple of decades before the microphone plug came along. Drill one 3 8 inch hole for each headphone jack figure 7 below.

To attach headphone and microphone jacks to the aircraft panel when you are installing the intercom as a mon aural only system. The basic design for this style of connector has roots in the design for a plug and jack set used with headsets. It s wired up the same common to both ears on the sleave longest nearest the handle left on the very tip right on the ring between those two. This is a readily available 6 35mm mono or stereo plug.

For the headphone jack replace the mono headphone jack with the stereo headphone jack. Wiring instructions connections should be made as shown in figure 4 and indicated in tables 1 and 2. You can get this at radio snack. The proper way to connect and solder the jacks and the use of a solder sleeve to remote bond ground the mic.

Helicopter headset helmet plug. The headphone jack is a standard 1 4 phone jack either mono or stereo depending on your aircraft. Connect the green wire p2 pin 1 to the tip connection. You may find in some newer aircraft like cirrus or mooney that you have the option of a ga plug or panel power.

The pj 055 provides audio to the ear cups and the pj 068 is for your microphone. The ga plug is the plug most of us recognize. This plug is often difficult to find as it is now only used in aviation. The headset plug diameter was only a two circuit plug sleeve and tip and 0 25 in diameter.

Connect the white green wire p2 pin 2 to the ring connection. It is also known as a general aviation plug twin plug or a dual plug. For most of the fixed wing airplane crowd you ll be best served with the standard dual male plugs. Choose a location for each pair of headphone and microphone jacks one pair each for the pilot and co pilot and one pair each for up to four passengers.

The mating shaft of the plug is 5 23mm or 0 206. Drill one 3 8 inch hole for each headphone jack figure 7 below. These are known as the pj 055 25 inch 6 35mm and pj 068 206 inch 5 25mm plugs.