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Flight Explorer's Latest Professional Version Has New Analysis and Datalink Tools
Flight Explorer's latest Professional Edition has more capable alerting, enhanced ETA (estimated time of
arrival) and ETE ( estimated time en route) analysis tools, an easy-to-use datalink messaging interface and more weather products integrated into its ASD
(aircraft situation display).
Profession Edition Version 8.0 will
also serve as the foundation for Flight Explorer's
new CDM (collaborative decision making) initiative, with its fully
implemented capabilities for four-dimensional trajectory modeling, additional
management-by-exception alerting, and improved event-time predictions.
Other notable additions to Version 8.0 will allow users to:
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Receive enhanced
ETAs and ETEs through FE's new proprietary 4D route modeling
system, which combines the predicted time at each route waypoint with the
spatial factors of latitude, longitude and altitude.
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Customize
ground-to-air, air-to-ground, and ground-to-ground datalink messages with
a built-in "click and communicate" application, real-time alerts when new
messages are received, and easily to read and create new messages via an integrated
Web-based interface.
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Receive
proactive alerts if an aircraft laterally deviates from its planned route, based
on user-configured nautical-mile parameters.
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Receive proactive
alerts if there is a significant change in the ETE and/or distance when a flight
plan change occurs for a specific aircraft. Thresholds for this alert also
can be configured by the user.
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Easily analyze
and compare original, previous and current routes of flight against current and
forecast weather and other airspace overlays.
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Get
more accurate representations of a specific aircraft's true location - as
well as future en-route predictions - when flying over oceans and other
remote regions, by "ghosting" its flight plan using Version 8's 4D
capabilities.
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Further
customize airplane tags with options that include ACID (aircraft
identification), fuel on board, altitude, speed, origin, destination, aircraft
type, departure time, FAA and Flight Explorer ETAs, scratchpad information and
more. (Flight Explorer says these will be later expanded to integrate CDM
and other data.)
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Specify
pertinent fleets by origin, destination and day of flight. (This also includes
all current FE MyFleet interface methods.)
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Plot customized
waypoints and range rings to represent stations and other considerations to
better support ETOPS (extended operations).
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Select multiple
aircraft when performing common operations such as turning plane tags on or off,
or sending datalink messages to a specific group of selected aircraft.
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Enhance the
visualization of real-time and forecast weather phenomena from a new suite of
integrated, higher-resolution global aviation weather data from
DTN/Meteorlogix and
ENSCO.
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View daily
published dynamic North Atlantic and Pacific flight tracks.
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Send customized
preflight information (flight plan, gate, fuel on board, crew information, etc.)
and generate alerts through the FE Professional Event Manager prior to take-off.
Commenting on Version 8, Flight Explorer's CEO Jim Kelly said these advancements will give FE's customers
a way to completely integrate their flight planning, flight following, datalink
communications and weather information on a single display, and provide "a clear
path to improved operations through CDM/TFM [collaborative decision making/traffic flow management] simplification, integration and automation."
08-16-2007. |
