Bose A30 Aviation Headset
This is the Bluetooth version, equipped with a single 6-pin Lemo plug, which allows for panel power—eliminating the need for batteries.
The Bose A30 is the most comfortable and fully-featured around-ear aviation headset Bose has ever created. It is the first of its kind to offer three modes of user-selectable active noise cancellation. Its lightweight, comfortable design has been FAA TSO and EASA E/TSO-C139a certified, ensuring both efficiency and durability in demanding conditions.
The Bose A30 Aviation Headset provides the optimal blend of comfort, audio clarity, and active noise cancellation available on the market.
Performance that never lets you down
Comfort
Bose is renowned for crafting the most comfortable aviation headsets, and the A30 raises the bar even higher. It has 20% less clamping force than the A20, making it barely noticeable during use. The aluminium alloy headband and redesigned centre torsion spring distribute weight more evenly across your head, while a new headband pad adds extra cushioning. The dedicated left and right ear-cups are contoured to fit the natural shape of your ears, making it a headset you can wear all day without discomfort.
Quiet
The A30 boasts an entirely digital Active Noise Reduction (ANR) system, offering full attenuation across a broad range of noise environments, from loud warbirds to quiet jets. Enhanced direct wind noise rejection ensures superior ANR performance, even in breezy conditions. The firmware is upgradeable, allowing you to take advantage of future technological advancements. Despite these enhancements, the A30 maintains Bose’s impressive battery life—lasting at least 45 hours, or 25 hours when using Bluetooth for external audio.
Clarity
Clear communication is the most critical function of an aviation headset, and the Bose A30 excels in this area. The noise-cancelling microphone effectively blocks out background noise, and the fully flexible boom allows you to position the microphone precisely where needed. Active equalisation improves the intelligibility of intercom conversations and air traffic control communications, ensuring you never miss an important call. The optional Bluetooth connectivity makes it easy to receive audio alerts from your electronic flight bag app, make phone calls on the ground, or enjoy music while en route, all with the superb sound quality you expect from Bose.
Durability
Despite weighing under 15 ounces, the A30 is built to withstand rigorous use. It meets stringent FAA TSO and EASA E/TSO-C139a certification standards, having passed 145 different tests, including being dropped onto concrete and exposed to extreme humidity. The cable is thinner and lighter, made with copper strands and a Kevlar core, ensuring it resists kinks and tangles. The headband has no exposed wires, and the A30 comes with a comprehensive 5-year manufacturer’s warranty.
Setting the Bar for Long-Term Comfort
The A30’s lightweight design and reduced clamping force provide unmatched comfort during long flights. While retaining the renowned noise cancellation of the Bose A20, it offers a lower overall weight and a 20% reduction in clamping force.
- Improved Comfort: Around-ear comfort and stability, with premium materials, low clamping force, and dedicated left and right ear cups.
- Optimal Noise Cancellation: Three modes of user-selectable acoustic noise cancellation, tailored for various noise scenarios and aircraft.
- Enhanced Communication: Optimised audio for clearer communication, with or without an intercom or hot mic system.
- Robust Design: Engineered to endure the wear and tear of daily use, even in extreme environmental conditions.
- Lightweight: Weighing just 14.2 ounces (404 grams) on the head.
- Versatile Microphones: Choose between electret or dynamic noise-cancelling microphones, depending on aircraft ICS type.
- Customisable Setup: Side-swappable boom microphone and down cable, requiring no tools.
- Convenient Control: Tap control for talk-through communication and a bypass mode for primary ICS audio with or without headset power.
- Certified: Built to the latest ARINC standards and TSO/ETSO C139a certified.
- Bluetooth® capabilities: For wireless audio connections to EFBs and cell phones (select models).
- Connectivity Options: Available in dual plug, LEMO (6-pin), XLR (5-pin), and U174 variants, with additional connectors like U384 becoming available soon for GA, commercial, and military customers.
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Bose A30 Aviation Headset
This is the Bluetooth version, equipped with a single 6-pin Lemo plug, which allows for panel power—eliminating the need for batteries.
The Bose A30 is the most comfortable and fully-featured around-ear aviation headset Bose has ever created. It is the first of its kind to offer three modes of user-selectable active noise cancellation. Its lightweight, comfortable design has been FAA TSO and EASA E/TSO-C139a certified, ensuring both efficiency and durability in demanding conditions.
The Bose A30 Aviation Headset provides the optimal blend of comfort, audio clarity, and active noise cancellation available on the market.
Performance that never lets you down
Comfort
Bose is renowned for crafting the most comfortable aviation headsets, and the A30 raises the bar even higher. It has 20% less clamping force than the A20, making it barely noticeable during use. The aluminium alloy headband and redesigned centre torsion spring distribute weight more evenly across your head, while a new headband pad adds extra cushioning. The dedicated left and right ear-cups are contoured to fit the natural shape of your ears, making it a headset you can wear all day without discomfort.
Quiet
The A30 boasts an entirely digital Active Noise Reduction (ANR) system, offering full attenuation across a broad range of noise environments, from loud warbirds to quiet jets. Enhanced direct wind noise rejection ensures superior ANR performance, even in breezy conditions. The firmware is upgradeable, allowing you to take advantage of future technological advancements. Despite these enhancements, the A30 maintains Bose’s impressive battery life—lasting at least 45 hours, or 25 hours when using Bluetooth for external audio.
Clarity
Clear communication is the most critical function of an aviation headset, and the Bose A30 excels in this area. The noise-cancelling microphone effectively blocks out background noise, and the fully flexible boom allows you to position the microphone precisely where needed. Active equalisation improves the intelligibility of intercom conversations and air traffic control communications, ensuring you never miss an important call. The optional Bluetooth connectivity makes it easy to receive audio alerts from your electronic flight bag app, make phone calls on the ground, or enjoy music while en route, all with the superb sound quality you expect from Bose.
Durability
Despite weighing under 15 ounces, the A30 is built to withstand rigorous use. It meets stringent FAA TSO and EASA E/TSO-C139a certification standards, having passed 145 different tests, including being dropped onto concrete and exposed to extreme humidity. The cable is thinner and lighter, made with copper strands and a Kevlar core, ensuring it resists kinks and tangles. The headband has no exposed wires, and the A30 comes with a comprehensive 5-year manufacturer’s warranty.
Setting the Bar for Long-Term Comfort
The A30’s lightweight design and reduced clamping force provide unmatched comfort during long flights. While retaining the renowned noise cancellation of the Bose A20, it offers a lower overall weight and a 20% reduction in clamping force.
- Improved Comfort: Around-ear comfort and stability, with premium materials, low clamping force, and dedicated left and right ear cups.
- Optimal Noise Cancellation: Three modes of user-selectable acoustic noise cancellation, tailored for various noise scenarios and aircraft.
- Enhanced Communication: Optimised audio for clearer communication, with or without an intercom or hot mic system.
- Robust Design: Engineered to endure the wear and tear of daily use, even in extreme environmental conditions.
- Lightweight: Weighing just 14.2 ounces (404 grams) on the head.
- Versatile Microphones: Choose between electret or dynamic noise-cancelling microphones, depending on aircraft ICS type.
- Customisable Setup: Side-swappable boom microphone and down cable, requiring no tools.
- Convenient Control: Tap control for talk-through communication and a bypass mode for primary ICS audio with or without headset power.
- Certified: Built to the latest ARINC standards and TSO/ETSO C139a certified.
- Bluetooth® capabilities: For wireless audio connections to EFBs and cell phones (select models).
- Connectivity Options: Available in dual plug, LEMO (6-pin), XLR (5-pin), and U174 variants, with additional connectors like U384 becoming available soon for GA, commercial, and military customers.
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SETTING THE BAR FOR LONG TERM COMFORT
The A30’s lightweight design with low clamping force provides unparalleled comfort over long flights. It upholds the acclaimed noise cancellation of the Bose A20 but features a lower overall weight and 20% reduced clamping force.
Higher performance where it matters
Comfort
20% less clamping force than the A20 (a very comfortable headset in its own right)
Quiet
The A30 features a completely digital ANR system to provide full attenuation across a wide variety of noise environments
Clarity
The noise canceling microphone blocks background noise and the fully flexible boom makes it easy to position
Durability
Passed 145 different tests, including being dropped onto concrete and subjected to extreme humidity conditions
AUDIO ON YOUR TERMS
The A30 features the best balance of attenuation and audio clarity of any pilot headset on the market. Its optional Bluetooth® interface and three selectable modes of active noise cancellation with talk-through communication provide industry-leading communication across all types of aircraft.
DESIGNED TO PERFORM
With a sleek, modern design and a toolless side-swappable mic, the A30 is engineered to provide versatility and a new level of performance in nearly every cockpit environment. Additionally, the headset is made with materials chosen for strength and durability without the bulk and clamping force of typical aviation headsets.