Banyan Air Service Latest of Several FBOs to Opt for PASSUR Tools in 2005

Banyan Air Service is the latest U.S. FBO (fixed base operator) to contract for Megadata Corporation's PASSUR web-based tools to get the location of specific aircraft, along with their ETAs and other information.

PASSUR InSight combines national en route flight tracking with terminal-area tracking from its network of radars (FAA ASR-9s nearby airports), along with a next-generation graphics engine for tracking aircraft movement, and PASSUR-generated ETAs.  Megadata says Insight is unique because of its use of what it describes as PASSUR's own national radar network that provides added precision in the terminal airspace, and because it is the only flight following program that combines national en-route flight tracking with runway-level tracking.  It also provides live visual runway configuration and utilization.

PASSUR Pulse gives access to activity reports based on is own database of flight information, including detailed owner/operator information.  Megadata believes this can give some competitive advantage to FBOs that use it, by showing such things as who fueled with competitors on the same airport, or nearby airports and how to reach the owners or operators of those aircraft.

Insight and Pulse can be accessed through the PASSUR Portal, which is the main access point for all other PASSUR web service, and which provides a live snapshot of operational information on a "web dashboard" of multiple information sets derived from the PASSUR database, and tools for instant information sharing and communication among all users.

Besides Insight and Pulse, Portal provides access to other PASSUR web-based applications for landing-fee reports, activity reports, community-noise software, visual-flight tracking, and enhanced CDM (collaborative decision making).

Other FBOs that opted for PASSUR in 2005, included Swift Aviation (December) for Portal, Pulse and InSight; SheltAir Aviation Services, (August) for the same tools; and in April, Megadata announced that all the FBOs and several corporate flight departments at Westchester County Airport (HPN) contracted for its web-based tools.

In July Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport purchased airport-tailored versions of PASSUR Portal, Pulse, and InSight.  01-07-2006.

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