Courtney Aviation assembles the best technology available to complete fire missions including avionics and more:

 

Three or more AM (aircraft) and Three or more FM (public services band 138-174 MHz) transceivers:

 

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Every aircraft has a NAT CC450 Simulcast Repeater so any combination of the above radios can be repeated just like a mountain top repeater.  As an airborne repeater station people in a canyon beyond line-of-sight can communicate on command frequencies.

 

 

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 Three audio mixing panels are available each plane so the pilot, right seat and back seat trainee can individually access (transmit/receive) any unique mix of the above radios.

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High Definition (1920x1080) video recording of the entire flight with soundtrack from every radio.

 

 

High resolution 15 Mega Pixel camera can take continuous photographs sequenced by an intervalometer every 6 seconds throughout the flight. and overlayed on topos.

 

 

In post flight analysis each 15 Mega Pixel photo can be enlarged just as if you would have zoomed-in during flight.  The flight can be replayed using the GPS track so it is almost like being there.

 

 

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Every plane has a Tablet PC with moving-map topos.  Data overlays from incident GIS teams give precise tracking to the pilot & ATGS.  Fire perimeters and other content can be added to a layer, and then quickly transmitted to the ground. Subtle items like Drop Points, Spot Fires and Hand-Cut lines are instantly phone.

 

 

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Thermal InfraRed and Extreme Zoom video with target tracking come together in a single gyro stabilized gimbal on the aircraft belly.  These cameras are a major leap forward for firefighting and surveillance.  From thousands of feet up, objects can be zoomed-in up close and tracked.  Without both stabilization and auto-target tracking it would be impossible to hold the image fix.  This allows fixed wing aircraft to do jobs previously reserved for helicopters.

 

Television quality video can be transmitted real time to about 70 miles.  As seen on the evening news eye-in-the-sky, this capability allows ground personnel to follow along with missions, whether firefighting, surveillance, law enforcement, environmental monitoring, etc..  And, it is even possible for the ground personnel to control the aircraft's gimbaled camera systems.