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Commsoft welcomes Spain’s Plus Ultra to the growing OASES community

31st May 2017 – A world leader in aviation engineering and maintenance software, Commsoft is delighted to announce that its industry-leading MRO IT system, OASES, has been chosen by Plus Ultra Líneas Aéreas to support its three Airbus A340-300 aircraft, to be followed by a fourth later in 2017.

OASES provides a high level of technical sophistication whilst still being intuitively user-friendly. Designed by engineers for engineers, the system is structured in a modular format and Plus Ultra has selected the Core, Airworthiness, Planning and Materials modules.

Based at Madrid Barajas International Airport, Plus Ultra operates both scheduled and charter flights to transatlantic destinations, including Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic and Lima, Peru. In March, the airline announced that it would be launching two new routes later this year:  Santiago de Chile and Havana, both with connections from Madrid and Barcelona. 

The initial implementation will be supported by FL Technics, who also provided extensive sales support for the deal as part of their recently-signed agency agreement with Commsoft.

Nick Godwin, Commsoft’s Managing Director, commented: “This is an important milestone for us – the first OASES contract that we have signed with a Spanish customer. This was the ninth new contract out of eleven already signed in 2017, covering fourteen direct customers in twelve different countries.”

Aleixandre Schudeck, Plus Ultra’s Technical Director, commented “We, as an airline, know how important it is to elect the appropriate software tool, able to support all our different operations. After a deeper analysis of the market we trust OASES will bring us the robustness of a mature tool together with enough flexibility to be adapted to our current procedures.”     

Latest contract win with Acumen Aviation highlights Commsoft OASES’ versatility 

26th May 2017 – Commsoft is delighted to announce that Acumen Aviation, a global aircraft asset manager based in Ireland, has selected OASES for its new CAMO operation.

OASES is a ‘best of breed’ MRO IT system which delivers the highest level of technical sophistication while still being intuitively easy to operate. Structured in a modular format, OASES is designed to ensure that its growing family of global users can adapt the system to meet their particular needs. Designed by engineers for engineers, OASES has flexibility at its heart.

Acumen has chosen the Core, Airworthiness, Planning and Commercial modules together with an option to add the Materials module at a later date.

Established in 2009, Acumen has offices in India, China and the USA in addition to its headquarters in Ireland. With a permanent staff of over 60 people, Acumen offers a full range of services throughout the lifecycle of any aircraft including aircraft sourcing, pre-purchase inspections (physical and records), project management, lease management and re-marketing, fleet audits, aircraft trading and powerplant management. Its customers include aircraft lessors, airlines, banks, and private equity investors. Since 2015, Acumen has had over 400 aircraft under varying forms of management.

It is anticipated that Commsoft will work closely with Acumen’s team in Dublin, Ireland, to consider new market possibilities. Both parties will explore a potential agency agreement, with Acumen promoting OASES on a non-exclusive basis to its customers and market prospects.

Nick Godwin Commsoft’s Managing Director, was keen to point out that not only does the contract with Acumen represent the second deal with a customer in Ireland, it also represents the eleventh new OASES contract signed in 2017 – covering the aviation engineering activities of fourteen direct customers in twelve different countries. “We look forward to working closely with Acumen to ensure the earliest installation and, going forward, to explore potential interfaces with Acumen’s range of specialist aviation IT solutions, including mobile applications.” 

James Flynn Acumen Aviation’s Continuing Airworthiness Manager commenting on the announcement said, “Acumen Aviation CAMO are very excited to commence utilising the OASES airworthiness management platform for its activities. We have been very impressed by the scope and professional presentation of the system and believe it will give us market advantage going forward. The system allows us to comply with our EASA regulatory requirements which was a key deciding factor in the selection process. We intend to offer a suite of CAMO services using the OASES system to our existing client base and new clients going forward. We found the Commsoft team a pleasure to deal with and look forward to a bright future in collaboration with Commsoft”. 

A/C phase-in LEVEL

The first A330 of the new low cost airline LEVEL arrived at its home-base Barcelona; phase-in supported by EXSYN and its data processing tool TITAN.

Air France Airbus performance powering ahead with SITAONAIR’s e-Aircraft® DataCapture

Wednesday 24 May 2017 – Air France (AF) and SITAONAIR today announce a new deal to deliver seamless aircraft data to AF’s top-flight operations and maintenance optimization programs.

Under the partnership, SITAONAIR’s new e-Aircraft® DataCapture solution will capture, dissect and deliver high-quality, immediate aircraft data, significantly bolstering performance monitoring across Air France Airbus aircraft. SITAONAIR’s deployment of DataCapture across AF’s Airbus fleet began in January 2017.

The e-Aircraft® DataCapture system works by collecting, compressing and encrypting an aircraft’s Quick Access Recorder (QAR) or Digital ACMS Recorder (DAR) data, and ensures it is automatically and immediately transmitted after landing, using 3G, to a ground server provided by SITAONAIR. The complete data is then sent to Air France’s data analysis system for instant analysis and response.

Many airlines manually collect aircraft post-flight and health data as part of an overnight maintenance regime, meaning a delay of hours after a flight has landed before data is retrieved.

Replacing manual collection with SITAONAIR’s automatic e-Aircraft® DataCapture equips airlines with instant detailed insight into their fleets, from how aircraft are operating, to investigating incidents and performing maintenance diagnostics.

This cost- and time-efficient solution also helps airlines optimize staffing resources and supports seamless transitions, which help reduce the time aircraft spend on the ground.

David Lavorel, CEO of SITAONAIR, says: “SITAONAIR has an excellent working relationship with Air France, with whom we have collaborated closely since 2014 on e-Aircraft® DataCapture. This is yet another example of how SITAONAIR’s 100%-aviation communications expertise is resolving the challenges faced by the modern airline industry head-on. With our intelligent new-generation data solutions, airlines have the tools to advance their critical flight operations and maintenance operation programs, and really deliver.”

Pierre-Yves Benain, Head of Portfolio and Strategy, e-Aircraft at SITAONAIR, says: “Our intelligent e-Aircraft® DataCapture solution is already making aircraft data easier for airlines to access; reducing data retrieval time from days to minutes, without mobilizing maintenance resources. Thanks to DataCapture, airlines can get an immediate detailed picture of all parameters recorded inflight by a QAR or DAR recorder. With our Cloud-based solution, our intention is to provide an end-to-end, expert data management service at business continuity level, freeing up airlines to focus on their core operations and engineering priorities.”

Air France’s e-Aircraft® DataCapture project leader added: “We are really pleased to be taking SITAONAIR’s e-Aircraft® DataCapture system onboard. It will enable us to complete the deployment of automated QAR/DAR data collection across our Airbus fleet for our Flight and Maintenance Operational Quality Assurance programs. SITAONAIR has been instrumental in the integration of the solution into our existing on-board hardware and ground systems.”

To find out more about e-Aircraft® DataCapture and our other aircraft data management solutions, speak to your local SITAONAIR contact, or visit www.sitaonair.aero/products/on-board-device-applications-and-services/e-aircraft-datacapture/ 

The Flightboard Of The Future Is Here

23 May 2017 – RocketRoute has launched FlightBoard, an innovative cloud-based flight tracking system which allows users to monitor any number of flights with ease. The product is specially designed for FBOs, Handlers and small airports which don’t have a flight board of their own.

With RocketRoute FlightBoard, a user can check any IFR airport within the Eurocontrol zone, as well as in the FAA zone in the US. It also allows users to set up a custom airport list.

Flights being tracked are updated every minute. All activity can be overseen just by switching between departures and arrivals. To receive notifications or alerts via email or SMS, a user merely has to register an aircraft.

RocketRoute FlightBoard offers flight tracking for general aviation flights, scheduled and non-scheduled flights, and has worldwide coverage.

Product Owner, Christina Tsegenko, commented; “Part of the beauty of this product is its adaptive design; it’s perfectly viable on all screen sizes. In short, it is now easy to follow any aircraft and see flight information from all over the world on any device.”

Thales secure information management systems boost digital transformation across Six Central American Countries, Aruba & Cyprus

• TopSky-AIM and TopSky-AMHS are being used operationally by COCESNA. Similar systems have also been deployed across Cyprus and Aruba
• This secure information management system will allow COCESNA member states to share information and documentation needed to improve efficiency and reduce workload
• This deployment will forward COCESNA’s objective of becoming a AIM regional HUB and help them comply with latest ICAO international Standards

Thales announces three separate contracts to aid in the digital transformation for premier Air Navigation Service Provider customers. The Central American Air Navigation Services Corporation (COCESNA) is operational with TopSky-AIM Aeronautical Information Management system, complete with TopSky-AMHS Aeronautical Messaging Handling System – only 12 months after contract award. The flexible, dynamic information system will support the airspace of six countries in Central America. Air Navigation Services Aruba (ANSA) is also operational with TopSky-AMHS in addition to TopSky-AIS Aeronautical Information Services with the deployments going live only nine months after contract award. Further, the Air Navigation Services of the Department of Civil Aviation of Cyprus (DCAC) became operational with TopSky-AMHS at the end of last year..

New Location Tracking optimizes resource scheduling

“GSE 4.0” creates complete transparency for Ground Support Equipment

With “GSE 4.0”, Lufthansa Technik AG has developed a system that allows Ground Support Equipment — i.e. all resources with a towbar or an ignition switch — to be found immediately using new localization software. This makes the time-consuming search for available GSE such as ladders, trailers, loaders, tugs, towbars, start-up devices, and air conditioning units a thing of the past.

Lufthansa Technik began the implementation of the pilot project in April. Hardware and software has now been installed, the antennas positioned on hangar roofs, and around 1,500 GSE items have been connected. The system has already gone online in Hamburg and Frankfurt. It will soon be put into operation in Munich and for other users within the Lufthansa Group, for example Lufthansa Cargo.

“With the help of ‘GSE 4.0′, location tracking is now possible at any time and in any place, so that we can locate all networked GSE both outside and in the hangars,” says project leader Gerrit Rexhausen. Quick and precise locating of equipment improves the availability of all GSE and allows for completely transparent planning. Beyond this, each item of GSE can display relevant information such as the fuel level, outside temperature, or faults.

“GSE 4.0” is possible using special hardware and software. Whilst localization with trackers and gateway uses established hardware, the visualization software was especially developed for the project. All trackers are equipped with on-board sensors. The sensors can be configured flexibly, depending on needs and the specific GSE, and extended using existing external sensors such as fuel level indicators on vehicles.

ATP’s Breakthrough Aircraft Centricity™ Service Consolidates Applicable Maintenance-Related Info With Single Tail Number Search 

Innovation Boosts Productivity, Accuracy and Safety by Effortlessly Integrating Complete Set of Airworthiness and Reference Content for Specific Aircraft

EBACE — GENEVA — May 22, 2017 — Aircraft Technical Publishers (ATP) — the trusted partner of aviation manufacturers, operators and maintenance providers — today announced the Aircraft Centricity™ Service at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE2017) in Geneva. A breakthrough approach in business aviation to managing maintenance-related content, Aircraft Centricity™ consolidates and streamlines the display of available information for an aircraft with a single tail number search. By providing rapid and convenient access to the most comprehensive set of airworthiness and reference content for a specific aircraft, ATP’s new product innovation helps MROs and maintenance professionals access information with unprecedented speed while ensuring high levels of safety and compliance through accurate determination of document effectivity.

Aircraft Centricity™ — a new set of features within the industry leading ATP Aviation Hub™ cloud solution — interconnects data from manufacturers, regulatory agencies, and other third parties to ensure maintenance providers have streamlined access to the most current information for the maintenance they are about to perform. With a single tail number search, Aircraft Centricity™ from ATP gathers and organizes maintenance-related documentation and maintenance information applicable to a specific aircraft, which can include: manufacturer service manuals and parts catalogs, service bulletins, airworthiness directives and regulatory information, due lists, maintenance and compliance tracking history and forecasting.

ATP’s innovative Aircraft Centricity™ approach is a powerful extension to the ATP Aviation Hub solution, an integrated suite of “smart content” services that optimizes information management among maintenance providers, owner/operators, and manufacturers. The Aircraft Centricity™ service leverages the company’s expertise and large repository of proprietary data, deep relationships with leading aviation manufacturers and professionals, and the company’s sophisticated software. ATP’s industry-leading software enables maintenance professionals to seamlessly manage their end-to-end maintenance processes: maintenance planning; reactive troubleshooting; reliability analytics; document control; maintenance tracking and more. This holistic approach has the end effect of helping owners protect aircraft valuation by ensuring regulatory compliance.

“For years, aviation maintenance professionals have envisioned a day when they could simply enter in a tail number in order to pull up and integrate all of the relevant reference content and airworthiness tracking information for all the components of an aircraft instead of spending so much time gathering, organizing, and reviewing it all,” said Charles Picasso, who took the helm as ATP’s new CEO in 2015 to lead the company into a new era of growth. “We’re proud to deliver on that vision with our ground-breaking Aircraft Centricity™, which will not only dramatically boost productivity, but will also ensure the highest levels of accuracy, safety and compliance.”  

For the first time, ATP has integrated data drawn from the FAA Aircraft Registration database into the ATP Aviation Hub solution, which displays the major component configuration such as airframe, engine, propeller, tires, and brakes to create a profile for a specific aircraft “as-built.” By simply entering an aircraft’s registration number, users can quickly create an ATP Aviation Hub profile of the components on a specific aircraft. Profiles are further customized using smart drop down lists that define available manufacturers and models — 

along with their component configuration to create the “as-maintained” configuration specific to an individual aircraft. 

Based on preliminary user experiences and testing, this new aircraft centric approach is expected to dramatically improve productivity for MROs and aviation maintenance professionals. By consolidating time-consuming preparation research tasks into a single, comprehensive search, ATP Aircraft Centricity™ enables maintenance professionals to get only relevant maintenance information with minimal effort. By shrinking maintenance cycle times, owners/operators and fleets can quickly return aircraft to service and significantly boost utilization rates.

Significantly, this new product innovation is expected to boost accuracy and minimize errors by giving maintenance professionals the confidence that they are utilizing only the relevant and most current information for a specific aircraft — from OEM manuals and service bulletins to maintenance and compliance tracking. This, in turn, supports improved safety and minimizes the risk of costly regulatory fines for non-compliance. 

ATP’s Aircraft Centricity™ is available to current ATP Aviation Hub subscribers. The ATP Aviation Hub cloud application uniquely enables customers to intelligently manage airworthiness and uptime, improve speed and accuracy of maintenance, detect failure trends for enhanced equipment performance, and improve operations, while decreasing operating costs.

ATP’s Breakthrough Aircraft Centricity™ Service Consolidates Applicable Maintenance-Related Info With Single Tail Number Search 

Innovation Boosts Productivity, Accuracy and Safety by Effortlessly Integrating Complete Set of Airworthiness and Reference Content for Specific Aircraft

EBACE — GENEVA — May 22, 2017 — Aircraft Technical Publishers (ATP) — the trusted partner of aviation manufacturers, operators and maintenance providers — today announced the Aircraft Centricity™ Service at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE2017) in Geneva. A breakthrough approach in business aviation to managing maintenance-related content, Aircraft Centricity™ consolidates and streamlines the display of available information for an aircraft with a single tail number search. By providing rapid and convenient access to the most comprehensive set of airworthiness and reference content for a specific aircraft, ATP’s new product innovation helps MROs and maintenance professionals access information with unprecedented speed while ensuring high levels of safety and compliance through accurate determination of document effectivity.

Aircraft Centricity™ — a new set of features within the industry leading ATP Aviation Hub™ cloud solution — interconnects data from manufacturers, regulatory agencies, and other third parties to ensure maintenance providers have streamlined access to the most current information for the maintenance they are about to perform. With a single tail number search, Aircraft Centricity™ from ATP gathers and organizes maintenance-related documentation and maintenance information applicable to a specific aircraft, which can include: manufacturer service manuals and parts catalogs, service bulletins, airworthiness directives and regulatory information, due lists, maintenance and compliance tracking history and forecasting.

ATP’s innovative Aircraft Centricity™ approach is a powerful extension to the ATP Aviation Hub solution, an integrated suite of “smart content” services that optimizes information management among maintenance providers, owner/operators, and manufacturers. The Aircraft Centricity™ service leverages the company’s expertise and large repository of proprietary data, deep relationships with leading aviation manufacturers and professionals, and the company’s sophisticated software. ATP’s industry-leading software enables maintenance professionals to seamlessly manage their end-to-end maintenance processes: maintenance planning; reactive troubleshooting; reliability analytics; document control; maintenance tracking and more. This holistic approach has the end effect of helping owners protect aircraft valuation by ensuring regulatory compliance.

“For years, aviation maintenance professionals have envisioned a day when they could simply enter in a tail number in order to pull up and integrate all of the relevant reference content and airworthiness tracking information for all the components of an aircraft instead of spending so much time gathering, organizing, and reviewing it all,” said Charles Picasso, who took the helm as ATP’s new CEO in 2015 to lead the company into a new era of growth. “We’re proud to deliver on that vision with our ground-breaking Aircraft Centricity™, which will not only dramatically boost productivity, but will also ensure the highest levels of accuracy, safety and compliance.”  

For the first time, ATP has integrated data drawn from the FAA Aircraft Registration database into the ATP Aviation Hub solution, which displays the major component configuration such as airframe, engine, propeller, tires, and brakes to create a profile for a specific aircraft “as-built.” By simply entering an aircraft’s registration number, users can quickly create an ATP Aviation Hub profile of the components on a specific aircraft. Profiles are further customized using smart drop down lists that define available manufacturers and models — 

along with their component configuration to create the “as-maintained” configuration specific to an individual aircraft. 

Based on preliminary user experiences and testing, this new aircraft centric approach is expected to dramatically improve productivity for MROs and aviation maintenance professionals. By consolidating time-consuming preparation research tasks into a single, comprehensive search, ATP Aircraft Centricity™ enables maintenance professionals to get only relevant maintenance information with minimal effort. By shrinking maintenance cycle times, owners/operators and fleets can quickly return aircraft to service and significantly boost utilization rates.

Significantly, this new product innovation is expected to boost accuracy and minimize errors by giving maintenance professionals the confidence that they are utilizing only the relevant and most current information for a specific aircraft — from OEM manuals and service bulletins to maintenance and compliance tracking. This, in turn, supports improved safety and minimizes the risk of costly regulatory fines for non-compliance. 

ATP’s Aircraft Centricity™ is available to current ATP Aviation Hub subscribers. The ATP Aviation Hub cloud application uniquely enables customers to intelligently manage airworthiness and uptime, improve speed and accuracy of maintenance, detect failure trends for enhanced equipment performance, and improve operations, while decreasing operating costs.

SkyBreathe meet great success in China

On May 22, 2017 – Hot news! Today we are excited to launch the latest release of SkyBreathe® in Chinese language! And what a beautiful version it is.

“We have 2 Asian airlines among our 22  customers now using our system so we are excited to demonstrate our increased commitment to SkyBreathe’ Chinese users. Clearly, China has extraordinary opportunities of growth for us and it’s on top of our strategic and sales priority. The excellent welcome and interest of our fuel efficiency solution makes us feel optimistic and gives reasons to improve ourselves more and more for the future.” Said Alexandre Feray, CEO, OpenAirlines.

In may, OpenAirlines hosted an official launch, in Beijing China, introducing Fuel Efficiency Software SkyBreathe in Chinese language.

Watch the video: Alexandre Feray talk about fuel efficiency and Co2 emission at CAAC TV, Chinese Civil Aviation TV.