Flight planning

Satcom’s tracking service links to flight planning
October 22, 2009 - 11:37am

Satcom Direct (Booth No. 3208) announced a new product and upgrades of existing ones at the NBAA show on Monday.

The company’s SD Flight Tracker is a Web-based service designed to deliver precise aircraft global positioning via Inmarsat, Iridium, VHF and broadband networks. It also provides real-time satellite system status and expands the capabilities of Satcom’s FlightDeck Freedom (FDF) service.

Universal Weather is still pretty agile at 50
October 20, 2009 - 4:26pm

Just as Universal Weather and Aviation celebrates its 50th year in business, the company announced a number of new products and services to deliver more comprehensive flight planning information to pilots, schedulers and dispatchers.
Jeppesen, Sat Direct team to enhance cockpit comm
October 20, 2009 - 9:18am

Jeppesen and Satcom Direct announced Monday a teaming relationship that allows each company to sell a bundled solution to their customers that combines flight planning services and cockpit communications.
Air Routing integrates services
October 19, 2009 - 2:55pm

Air Routing is here at the NBAA Convention announcing it will integrate its Datalink, Trip Quote, Fuel Stop Analyzer, GPS RAIM Prediction, Runway Analysis and Domestic Flight Watch under a single portal–Flight Planner. The company, long known for international flight planning, also announced a new goal of becoming a flight-planning vendor of choice for domestic operators.

Air Support makes jump across the pond
October 19, 2009 - 6:38am

Air Support is making its debut appearance as an NBAA exhibitor this year (Booth No. 4749), marking the company’s first entry into the North American market. The Billund, Denmark-based company’s preflight planning software (PPS) system has been available to European and Middle Eastern customers for a number of years but, for the first time, it is now available to North American operators as well.

eAPIS service to ease customs reporting tasks
October 13, 2009 - 12:28pm

The new U.S. Customs and Border Protection requirement for aircraft operators to provide passenger manifest and aircraft information before departure for all international flights to and from the U.S. should be less of a chore thanks to a new electronic filing service offered jointly by NBAA and Arinc Direct Business Aviation Solutions.
Air Routing unveils online flight-planning products
October 1, 2009 - 6:31am

Poised to chip away at flight-planning monolith Universal, Air Routing unveils a new suite of online flight-planning products and services this month. Existing clients can use the new system October 1; new clients can sign up at the NBAA Convention later this month.
Air Routing adds fuel analyzer
July 1, 2009 - 5:34am

Flight planning and trip-handling company Air Routing has released a fuel stop analyzer as part of its new online Trip Quotes service. Customers can use Trip Quotes to “determine Air Routing arrangement fees, international third-party charges and estimated fuel costs before planning a trip,” according to the company.
Final Report: Improper flight planning led to C90 crash
June 4, 2009 - 12:05pm

Hawker Beechcraft King Air C90, Bloomingdale, Ga., Sept. 15, 2007– According to the board, the probable cause of the crash of the King Air C90 was “loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion as a result of the pilot’s improper preflight planning and preparation.
Site helps smooth Euro flight plans
May 12, 2009 - 8:32am

Because operators choosing to use a self-service flight planning system (FPS) face some significant challenges when flying in Europe, Universal Weather and Aviation (Booth No. 643) has developed UVflightplanner.com to leverage the local knowledge and hands-on experience of its London-based European Operations Centre (EOC) to actively manage every flight plan it files into Eurocontrol.

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