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The Cockpit Voice Recorder.

readytotaxi From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2006, 2626 posts, RR: 3
Posted (1 year 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 1991 times:

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I was wondering where the microphone for the CVR is located in a cockpit.
Is it a feed from the pilots headsets or something remotely located within the cockpit.
From tapes it appears to pick up all surrounding sounds. TIA

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yeelep From United States of America, joined Apr 2011, 530 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (1 year 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 1985 times:

737NG voice recorder gets inputs from the Capt's mic/headphone, F/O's mic/headphone, First observers mic/headphone and an area mic on the voice recorder panel located on the P5 overhead panel.

Mir From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 19813 posts, RR: 56
Reply 2, posted (1 year 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 1966 times:

There's generally a microphone that captures ambient noise (so you can hear things like switches being flipped, handles being moved, etc.) and then the headsets and microphones get recorded as well. But things will vary based on the type of airplane and the type of recorder.

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HAWK21M From India, joined Jan 2001, 31228 posts, RR: 58
Reply 3, posted (1 year 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1828 times:

Apart from the channel per Crew member & observer,there would be a channel connected to the area mike normally located in the overhead panel,that picks up Audio within the Flight deck.

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