WSI International's New Flight Briefing Version Expands its Functionality

WSI (Weather Services International) has released a new version of its flight plan briefing application that eliminates the need for manual inputs and expands its functionality.

Version 7.7 of WSI Pilotbrief International enables crew members to access a flight plan, along with associated briefing materials and other documents from a single source.  By incorporating a new functionality called WSI Planupdate, Pilotbrief's latest version captures and reads an airline's flight plan and automatically generates and includes the appropriate weather, chart and NOTAM (notice to airmen) elements, customized for the specific route.  In addition, it can intelligently attach other electronic documents such as airport charts, internal memos, and manual updates.

Carrying these capabilities further, WSI's Dynamic Route Briefing generates a single briefing from the multiple flight plans that will be flown in a daily airline schedule, which allows crew members to self-brief for all the sectors they will fly during a duty period.

WSI's print function, PBI Print, has also been upgraded to print different file types including PDF, Word and Excel.

According to Dave Marks, who manages WSI aviation products, the company is in the process of implementing these functions with a leisure airline in the U.K. and will install the new version for another leisure carrier and two national airlines in the coming months.  03-30-2006.

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