Cobham launches audio management series for aircraft

Air January 29, 2020

Cobham has announced the launch of Titan, a digital audio management series for fixed and rotary-wing aircraft.

Titan is a line of digital audio management projects designed by Cobham Aerospace for use by light to medium rotary and fixed-wing aircraft in the emergency services. The range is designed to allow the emergency services to perform tactical missions using smaller aircraft.

The public safety aviation sector has seen a rise in the demand for smaller aircraft to carry out tactical missions, whilst maintaining the same levels of connectivity and capability. These emergency services communicate using up to nine separate radios, which presents challenges of payload sensitivity and around the installation of audio and radio systems.

Mickeal Daw, Product Line Manager in Audio and Information Management at Cobham, said: “Titan brings helicopter and turboprop connectivity into the 21st century, providing their crews with the modern functionality that they are used to outside aviation and reflecting the requirements for multichannel audio management systems to cope with tactical missions. The system will include Bluetooth capability, enabling the crew to take telephone calls, while the system’s spatially separated audio will increase their ability to distinguish conversations on different radios.”

Titan features a compact profile and over 50% weight savings. The system follows on from Cobham’s Digital Audio Communications System and will be aimed at aircraft such as the Airbus H125 and Cessna Caravan.

Titan includes restricted transmission capability, configurable front panel, warning access and talk groups, reducing the need for multiple part numbers being certified on the aircraft. The system will include Bluetooth capability, enabling the crew to take telephone calls, while the system’s spatially separated audio will increase their ability to distinguish conversations on different radios.

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