Company Back At Oshkosh For The 30th Year

In the summer of ’85, Mark Scheuer walked the aisles of the Fly Market at the EAA Oshkosh fly-in, telling everyone who would listen about his new intercom. This year, thousands of people will seek out his double-size booth in Aisle A, Hangar A at the 2015 AirVenture. Pilots from around the world come to PS Engineering to find out, “What’s New.”

The portable aerocom, was the company’s first intercom, and it took another 4 years before the panel-mounted PM1000 was introduced. In the last year, PS Engineering has flipped the trend, and introduced five new audio systems, the PMA450, PMA7000M, PMA7000BT, and PDA360EX.

The PMA450 is the world's first audio panel with IntelliAudio Spatial Processing. Developed by the US Air Force Laboratory, this gives the flight crew the ability to easily differentiate radio communications sources by placing them in different locations around their head. The PDA360EX provides a similar capability, but tailored for experimental aircraft. Both systems offer USB charging for cockpit personal electronic devices like iPads.

In true PS Engineering form, the new PMA7000-series audio panels were specifically designed to replace the older existing PMA6000 and PMA7000 audio panels and add Bluetooth functionality, letting their earliest adopters keep up with the latest technology.

From their location in East Tennessee, they have dedicated a small group of engineers and technicians that designs, manufactures and delivers audio products to all corners of the world, with FAA, EASA and other international approvals, and a dealer network of 600 authorized facilities worldwide.

In July 1986, the supersonic jet airliner Concorde was displayed for the first time in Oshkosh, representing the future of aviation. Thirty years later, that future has changed into something else, but the attention PS Engineering gives to audio control system and to their customers, PS Engineering will continue to lead with innovation that is logically applied to technology for cockpit utility.

Innovations that have since become industry standards, such as:

• First to provide individually adjustable VOX circuitry for pilot and copilot
• First to provide Swap capability, US Patents 5,903,227, 6,160,496
• First to fully integrate music with Soft Mute™ technology, where music volume is muted, slowly returning after the radio transmission ends. US Patent 4,941,187
• First to offer dual audio, “split” mode in a single audio panel
• First fully automatic VOX system, the IntelliVox   US Patent 6,493,450
• First to introduce an FAA-approved, stereo audio panel, with intercom and marker beacons, all in the same unit.
• First to introduce AMP (Active Microphone Processor) a system that removes noise from the microphone for noisy and open cockpits.
• First to use digital signal processing to record aircraft radio transmissions for playback in the cockpit.
• First to integrate Bluetooth connectivity in the aircraft audio system.
• First to combine a full featured audio panel and VHF COM radio in one system.
• First general aviation application of IntelliAudio Spatial processing, US Patent 7,391,877

“For the last 30 years I’ve been attending Oshkosh, I never tire of pilots coming by just to tell us how great our products are or the repeat customers with a new airplane who want to see our latest stuff. PS Engineering definitely has a fan club that grows every year and that is just the type of grass roots organization we are,” said Company founder, president, and CEO Mark Scheuer.

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