Anybody use this yet.

[Taylor04]

Hello I purchased one of the new pilot usa blulink adapters. It allows you to link up to your phone through bluetooth and talk through headset or helmet whatever it be. Well I finally got it after a week late due to backorder and it rings in the headset unlike the kennedy technologies that I used before. The kennedy tech. was great and nice and loud but it used a 2.5mm plug to hook up to it but my phone died and couldnt find to many good phones with that plug. So finally I found this blulink and its gonna work great but I cant hardly hear it ring and the incoming call is very weak. I sent it back and they are checking it out. Maybe its just mine because I could hardly hear it ring in the hangar with several kinds of headesets. But I was just searching around if anybody has used one of these yet and if they had any luck. Thanks Taylor

[permison]

Got a link? I might like to try one myself.

[heli.pilot]

You could always get a 2.5mm to 3.5mm adapter, if you wanted to use your Kennedy Technologies setup. Check at Radio Shack if your interested. I know they sell an adapter that goes the other way - 3.5mm to 2.5mm.

[Gomer Pylot]

Yes, there are adapters available, cheap, as well as cables with 2.5mm on one end and 3.5mm on the other. I have a few of each from various projects over the years.

[Tenacious T]

Radio Shack has an adapter for anything. I would also be interested in anyone's first hand review of this device. What did it cost?

[heli.pilot]

I found this link:

 

http://www.cellset.com/Aviationitems.html

 

Is this the product you have Taylor04?

[Yamer]

ok i know im a newbie in flight period but OH MY GOD!!! are you seriously saying that you talk on your cell phone while piloting a helicopter? is that like texting while driving your car?

 

dont think ill be doing that EVER!... is that safe?

[Taylor04]

Hey sorry for taking so long to get back to you guys. I've tried the adapter and it didn't work from radioshack. I'm up for any suggestions I'll get thelink later but it's Blulink pilot USA.

[heli.pilot]

Are you sure they sold you the right adapter? The reason I ask is that I went to Radio Shack last week to buy a 2.5mm to 3.5mm adapter (so I plug regular 3.5mm headphones into my cell phone that has a 2.5mm plug). I didn't notice until I got home that he gave me some non-metric thing - 3/32 to something or other. I thought that perhaps the packaging was just written in standard measurements, and it looked like the right size, so I tried it. It was close enough that it plugged into the phone and the headphones, but it didn't work.

[Taylor04]

Well I'll have to look at it closer but here's the deal. My old phone with Cellset worked great but phone broke. So bought another phone that was junk so I went ahead and returned it and got the samsung a837 rugby. They only had the 2.5 plug that's got some funky plug on the other end to plug into the phone so that's why I went to radio shack and got that 2.5 to 3.5. I made sure the Cellset still works and it does cuz I tried with another phone and it works but that adapter and the chord to the phone are not working together. I ordered the 3.5 chord off of amazon and of course they gave me the wrong one. So when I seen this Blulink I thought perfect it rings and it's wireless to the phone. Well it does ring so quiet I can't hardly hear it standing on the ground with my helmet or headset on. They have it and are checking it out but I don't know what to do.

[reddogr44]

I purchased a (Kennedy Tech.) cell set. I'm trying to use it in a R44 w/bose and a blackberry storm.

I been thru 2 different models from them. I can hear the audio extremly well,

however all they hear is backround noise. Any sugestions.

[Goldy]

ok i know im a newbie in flight period but OH MY GOD!!! are you seriously saying that you talk on your cell phone while piloting a helicopter? is that like texting while driving your car?

 

dont think ill be doing that EVER!... is that safe?

 

1. Of course, they are only talking about using their cellphone/headset while on the ground during run up..because there are some legal issues to use it in the air!

 

2. I can show you at least one NTSB report with a cell phone in the dead pilots hand. I would really prefer to hand the controls to someone else if I needed to make a call that bad. Really helps to always have a buddy pilot nearby! I wouldnt endorse anything that takes your eyes off the skies, but the reality of an experienced pilot flying out in the country, vs. some of us that fly in congested airspace.

 

Cell phones are great to coordinate ground crews, call the tower when your radio dies, etc. Guess it couldnt hurt to have the integrated hook up. Just dont text!

[rotorcraft]

Hello I purchased one of the new pilot usa blulink adapters. It allows you to link up to your phone through bluetooth and talk through headset or helmet whatever it be. Well I finally got it after a week late due to backorder and it rings in the headset unlike the kennedy technologies that I used before. The kennedy tech. was great and nice and loud but it used a 2.5mm plug to hook up to it but my phone died and couldnt find to many good phones with that plug. So finally I found this blulink and its gonna work great but I cant hardly hear it ring and the incoming call is very weak. I sent it back and they are checking it out. Maybe its just mine because I could hardly hear it ring in the hangar with several kinds of headesets. But I was just searching around if anybody has used one of these yet and if they had any luck. Thanks Taylor

 

Hi Taylor

 

I´m thinking about getting a blulink for my bose panel in R44

 

Did Pilot USA solve ur problem and do u recomend Blulink?

 

I can´t find any reviews out there!!

 

Thanks

Mads

[Rick McWilliams]

I have seen airplane pilots texting on their blackberry in flight, at low altitude, low visibility, in deteriorating weather. Much of the text was exchanging weather data with other aircraft in similar conditions. There is of course some social email as well. I think that this is dumb in an airplane and stupid in a helicopter.

 

The FCC does not permit the use of cell phones or blackberry devices from aircraft. They rarely enforce anything regarding these devices. The FCC is regarded as worse than the FAA or IRS. They can impose some very serious penalties on violators.

 

Please try to fly safely when you are near me.

[permison]

The FCC does not permit the use of cell phones or blackberry devices from aircraft. They rarely enforce anything regarding these devices. The FCC is regarded as worse than the FAA or IRS. They can impose some very serious penalties on violators.

 

That's not entirely true. It's a common misconception but the FAA only prohibits the use of cell phones on passenger for hire aircraft while operating under the 135 or 141 rules. It does not apply to VFR flights on aircraft not flying under a air carrier operating certificate or an operating certificate. So if you are flying your personal aircraft or company aircraft and your company doesn't prohibit it, there is no rule prohibiting you or your passengers from using it. There are of course smart times to use it and not so smart times.

 

Sec. 91.21

 

Portable electronic devices.

 

(a) Except as provided in paragraph ( of this section, no person may operate, nor may any operator or pilot in command of an aircraft allow the operation of, any portable electronic device on any of the following U.S.-registered civil aircraft:

(1) Aircraft operated by a holder of an air carrier operating certificate or an operating certificate; or

(2) Any other aircraft while it is operated under IFR.

( Paragraph (a) of this section does not apply to--

(1) Portable voice recorders;

(2) Hearing aids;

(3) Heart pacemakers;

(4) Electric shavers; or

(5) Any other portable electronic device that the operator of the aircraft has determined will not cause interference with the navigation or communication system of the aircraft on which it is to be used.

© In the case of an aircraft operated by a holder of an air carrier operating certificate or an operating certificate, the determination required by paragraph ((5) of this section shall be made by that operator of the aircraft on which the particular device is to be used. In the case of other

aircraft, the determination may be made by the pilot in command or other operator of the aircraft.

[Gomer Pylot]

Permison, do not confuse the FAA with the FCC. They are different agencies and regulate different things. The FCC does regulate the use of cell phones, and does prohibit their use in the air except under specified circumstances.