Off Topic Headphones (Aircraft)

I have 2 really nice sets of headphones unfortunately I cant use them on the computer, I bought a converter, but that seems not to work with them, can someone give me an ebay link as to what to buy please?

Did you stick it in the right hole?

Cheers

Just looked they seem the same

And I did try the back of the puter too

Are the two plugs microphone and earpiece? The adapter is a stereo jack splitter. @wammers will know this he fly's model aircraft... Shįte.. I said it out loud... Im going to find somewhere to hide..

I think just earpiece, its an aircraft jack, so cant see it having a mike on it

Silly questions,

Did you try another set of headphones in the jack on the computer to see f it is working?

Have you got it on mute?

Cheers

Are they two inputs?
In craft and incoming signals! Where's wammers he'll know..

neilly said:

Silly questions,

Did you try another set of headphones in the jack on the computer to see f it is working?

Have you got it on mute?

Cheers

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Good question!

Mark Piercy said:

Are they two inputs?
In craft and incoming signals! Where's wammers he'll know..

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Are you thinking they are Pilot headphones? I took it they were the std sat in the back sipping a G&T set of headphones while watching a film.

Cheers

No.... I get them from upper class

I will get another set and check the plugs

Ok mono left and right channel male plug into a stereo two headphone combiner, so why be surprised if it doesn't work.

Could it be the headphones work off a different power consumption. The power might be increased to let pilot hear over the engine tone. The same with throat mic for helicopter crew. A standard headphone set for hifi even ultrapowerful ones still only use a minimum amount to move the cones. There will be ohms wattage and volts symbols on the side to indicate the power needed.

What's all this crap about pilot Headphones?
Back in the late 90s passengers were given headphones to listen to the inflight movie, depending on where you were seated the quality of the earphones improved and were fee of charge, as time moved on passengers wished to use their own, so a mono to stereo adaptor was given out to them and so the end of free headphones.

they are not pilot headphones. they are passenger ones to listen to in flight entertainment

Is the adaptor not just a splitter to allow two people to listen to one music device?
If so, it probably won't work.
What you need is an adapter that splits the stereo jack into two mono jacks. Quite common in the music world for inputting a stereo source into separate channels on a mixing desk.

Wazzajnr said:

Is the adaptor not just a splitter to allow two people to listen to one music device?

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No

it appears that the headphones have a stereo jack and a mono jack. the computer has a headphone and a mic socket. the stereo headphone jack will fit into the headphone jack on the pc. as for the mono jack, i am not sure. I think it might be for noise cancelling. defo not the mic socket tho.

I thought if I plugged the headphones into that adapter, and then plug it into the computer they would work on my puter? but looks like thats not going to work then?