Cobham Aerospace Connectivity has launched Titan, a series of aircraft audio management products for light to medium rotary and fixed-wing aircraft.
The Titan Digital Audio Management Series will enable agencies such as Police, Fire and Medical Evacuation to perform tactical missions using smaller aircraft.
Cobham highlighted a rise in the demand for smaller aircraft to carry out tactical missions in the public safety aviation sector, whilst maintaining the same levels of connectivity and capability – these emergency services communicate using up to nine separate radios, which present challenges of payload sensitivity and around the installation of audio and radio systems.
Building on the capability of Cobham’s Digital Audio Communications System, Titan will fulfil the requirement for an audio system providing all of the functionality that a tactical mission requires with a compact profile (and over 50% weight savings, the company said). Titan will be aimed at aircraft such as the Airbus H125 and Cessna Caravan.
“Titan brings helicopter and turboprop connectivity into the 21st century,” said Mickeal Daw, Product Line Manager, Audio and Information Management at Cobham. “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.”
Titan builds in extensive configurability, including 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.
Daw continued: “We have had early expressions of interest from leading OEMs who have responded positively to the functionality and profile of the system.”
