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Aviation software company eTT Aviation recently signed a reseller agreement with newcomers Skali, Inc. Skali is the creator of SafeAir, an innovative healthcare solution for in-flight medical emergencies. Through its proprietary software and access to worldclass physicians, SafeAir enables direct passenger-to-doctor communication, by-passing the traditional “game of telephone” which hinders current emergency services. Offering SafeAir as part of the eTT Suite of Products means eTT can offer a modern Safety Assurance System (SAS) to it’s existing and new customers.

Skali is the brainchild of healthcare IT expert Husein Attarwala. Partnering with renowned medical personnel, aviation experts, and satellite Wi-Fi service providers, Skali is tailormade to create a better solution for the problem of inflight medical emergencies which take place on roughly 1 out of every 600 flights in the US alone. Winning multiple start-up
competitions and securing early-stage investment from Forum Ventures, Skali Is already creating disruption in the airline industry with much more to come.

About Skali, Inc.

Skali, Inc. is a minority and veteran-owned small business that seeks to disrupt traditional telemedicine by providing increased access to healthcare during medical crises, particularly in remote locations. Its first product, SafeAir, is specifically tailored to passenger airlines to enable improved access to vital medical advice during inflight emergencies.

About eTT Aviation

eTripTrader, Inc. (dba eTT Aviation) has been in business over 20 years and is a servicedisabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) headquartered in Boise, Idaho. eTT specializes in scalable aviation flight and crew management, flight planning and dispatch, maintenance, accounting, inventory, HR, and management information solutions that
revolutionize the way airlines achieve scheduling flexibility, compliance and control, all while steadfastly adhering to its core values of being Accountable, Ambitious, Ethical, having a Positive Attitude, and always begin Ready, Able, and Willing to Help.

At a glance

• Mixed fleet of fixed and rotary wing aircraft
• Operates to 14 airports as well as 42 heliports and helistops
• Project in full swing
• AMOS Airline Edition and AMOSmobile/EXEC chosen

In-depth selection process

Air Greenland was ready for a change in their MRO software as the legacy software was no longer in the position to support today’s airline maintenance requirements. Among others, the airline was looking for fully integrated end-to-end support for all processes for fixed and rotary wing aircraft combined with the capability to support a paperless operation. The operation of their aircraft is far from standard, the mixed fleet brings with a mixed utilisation with its own challenges. A combination of scheduled, charter medical and SAR flights have to be accommodated when managing all ground activities and supporting business areas. With these requirements in mind, Air Greenland started an in-depth selection process to get a clear picture of the capabilities and gaps on the available software solutions.

AMOS was able to convince the project team by ticking off the requirements and having a proven track record of successful implementations around the world for helicopters as well as fixed wing aircraft.

Smooth project progress 

The implementation project is in full swing with workshops and training being delivered both on-line and on-site. While the project started during the pandemic and all services from Swiss-AS had to be performed online, on-site travel is now possible again to the benefit of both, Swiss-AS and Air Greenland. Flexibility, creativity, and the lessons learnt from the beginning of the pandemic ensured that the travel ban did not block the implementation progress. 

As with any project, one of the key paths to success is collaboration. Being able to support the dedicated and highly knowledgeable team from Air Greenland with in-house experts from Swiss-AS Business Consulting and Training, who bring years of experience and expertise, not only in regards to AMOS, but also in rotor wing operations and maintenance as well as airline and MRO activities, has continued to build on the strong foundations built during the selection process. 

Greenland is not only a unique project geographical location for Swiss-AS staff, it has also had an impact on the implementation set-up: Contrary to the strong trend within the AMOS Community, and industry, due to its remoteness Air Greenland will not rely on cloud hosting, but will instead run the server on premise.

With the AMOS Airline Edition, Air Greenland will perform most of its maintenance inhouse and rely on the industry best practice processes that come with the MRO software. AMOSmobile/EXEC is also in the scope of the project and will complete the AMOS user experience in the hangar. 

About Air Greenland

Air Greenland is the state-owned flag carrier airline of Greenland. Its fleet comprises of almost 30 aircraft – helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. The route network includes international and domestic destinations whereas the helicopter fleet mainly feeds smaller communities into the domestic airport network. The airline also operates in Arctic airspace to support remotely located research stations, which presents a unique range of challenges. Maintenance for their fleet is mainly performed inhouse. In 2022 Air Greenland takes delivery of a state-of-the art Airbus A330 NEO to replace its existing A330-200.

About Swiss AviationSoftware and AMOS

AMOS is a comprehensive, fully-integrated MRO software solution being developed and distributed by Swiss AviationSoftware. Swiss-AS, a 100% subsidiary of Swiss International Air Lines has more than 200 customers worldwide and belongs to the industry-leading MRO software providers. Our loyal customer base includes pure operators of all sizes, major low-cost, regional and flag carriers, large airline groups and MRO providers. In the Americas and in Asia, AMOS is distributed through a partnership with Lufthansa Systems. For more information, please contact us via marketing@swiss-as.com.

The drudgery of traditional scheduled maintenance forecasting is known to anyone who has worked in maintenance planning.  Needing to execute repetitive forecasts against individual aircraft, fleets or major assemblies is routine at best and mind-numbing at worst.

Wouldn’t it be great if a software solution allowed a person to create a library of forecast templates, schedule those templates for repetitive periodic execution, and deliver the automatically executed forecast results to a user or group of users?  In addition to that, how about having the software solution auto-generate work orders in cases where there is something coming due within the forecast period?

Obviously, RAAS does all of these things.  Scheduled automatic forecast execution is a very popular feature used by a wide array of users on the basis that RAAS forecasting features allow forecasting against aircraft, aircraft types, major assemblies, ground equipment, inventory shelf lives and even tool cribs.  Auto-generation of work orders is also very popular, particularly with operators of smaller aircraft types.

OASES, the Airworthiness and MRO software developer, welcomes a partnership with Latvian passenger and cargo airline RAF AVIA. The airline, head-quartered in Riga, operates a fleet of ATR 72 and Saab 340 aircraft for both cargo and passenger flights across Europe and beyond. The company maintains its aircraft and those of third-party customers at a modern hangar facility located at Riga International Airport and as such have opted for OASES’ Inventory Manager module to optimise stores and inventory management processes. 

Igors Bezsmertnijs, CEO of RAF AVIA said, “We are a well-established and growing airline and one of the oldest freight and passenger carrier in the Baltic region. Our operations extend across Europe and as such we have been looking for the right software solution for managing our increasingly complex inventory requirements.

OASES, with its extensive experience as a software solutions provider for the airline industry will provide a solid foundation for our needs moving forward whilst bringing major benefits to our customers through operational efficiencies and improved productivity.”

Paul Lynch, Managing Director of OASES, added, “RAF AVIA joins a growing list of aviation partners who have selected OASES as part of their digitalisation strategy, and we look forward to working closely with them as they grow and expand their operations.”

The OASES implementation team are currently working with RAF AVIA staff to have OASES fully deployed and operational within a ten-week timeframe.

About OASES

Commsoft’s OASES, (Open Aviation Strategic Engineering System) is the all-in-one software for airworthiness maintenance control, meeting strict regulatory requirements. It enables airlines, fixed wing and rotary operators, MROs, and CAMOs to increase efficiencies in the management and monitoring of every procedure or intervention. 

OASES is used by 130 aviation organisations – national carriers, large third-party maintenance providers, and independent operators – and supported in 55 countries across 6 continents. Commsoft is an MIT group company, part of the Valsoft Corporation portfolio.

About RAF AVIA

RAF-AVIA is passenger and cargo airline that was established in 1990. Based in Riga it is one of the oldest freight and passenger carrier in the Baltics operating regular and ad hoc charter flights in the region and all over Europe.

RAF-AVIA Part – 145 is EASA certified. It provides line and base maintenance for passenger and cargo ATR42, ATR72, Saab340 A and Saab340B for RAF-AVIA fleet, for customers from Europe and third countries.

We are confounded by the terminology and the buzz around data science. It is a lot like looking through a dirty glass out into a hazy horizon to recognise what the colourful thing that moves out there is.  

We get really frustrated when we can’t make out what it is. That is what it feels like when you enter the elite club of contemporary data scientists. Even though I wanted to discuss the aspect of contemporary data science challenges in Aviation, it is perhaps worth exploring what contemporary data science is.

 Data Science is a practice as old as human cognition. YuvalHarari fans, who have read “Sapiens”, will understand what I mean. Everything we learn, we do by observation and to some level, a mental theorisation of the same. This means that our brain processes data and understands / interprets from it. We do the same (albeit at a much smaller scale) using computers.

So why is it that data science gets this exponential hype now more so than ever before? This is a question worth pondering over if you aspire to be a contemporary data scientist.

Companies have traditionally employed data scientists for a long time. Fundamentally, they are statisticianswho analyse, say for instance, market data and consumer surveys for example.

The typical questions posed to them could vary from: “Does this data suggest any significant improvement in our market strategy?” or “are all our consumers happy about the way we support them?”.

Measuring whether a strategy significantly performed better than the other or estimating the satisfaction of consumers is a simple enough problem for a statistician. I don’t insinuate that the traditional data scientists have an easy job. That is not at all true, but they have a clear defined problem to solve. There is so much data which is not curated that the keepers themselves have no idea what it might represent. This changed the textbook landscape of data science.

Data science has become pure Math at times, where you advance and then derive a use-case. The demands that we face now are questions to the nature of: “Take this search log data and try to find something useful we can use to our advantage” or “can you locate what went wrong with our customer strategy from the sales data for the last 10 years?”.

Let me compare the aspects of traditional and contemporary data science using the table below.

 Now that we understand the flavours of contemporary data science, let us take a closer look at the domain: Aviation.

Let us take an example of an Aircraft or Engine Maintenance MRO that is trying to maximize the utilization of its capacity to optimize costs and increase revenue. This falls under the broad category of a finite capacity model: in other words, without increasing manpower, material, tooling, how can an MRO cater to more slots using the existing capacity – one that translates to greater revenue and optimize costs.‍

Historic maintenance data can help surmise the tasks and resource allocation model that has been most performant for various types of work scope levels against different Engine and Aircraft profiles. Such insights can be structured to possibility models which can simulate multiple shop / hangars visit schedules that give optimum performance towards maximizing profitability.

The simulation is done on many control parameters (Technical, Operational) which the planning process employs. This will allow us to benchmark a reference plan from the stage of a potential slot sale all the way until WIP execution: one that allows advanced prediction of profitability and risk mitigation.

One of our objectives at KeepFlying® is to expand the use of data science in interpreting Airworthiness and Maintenance data to generate commercial insights.

Flip the tables now: as an Asset Owner / Lessor, what use cases can you address? We will cover this as part of the next blog.

Relaunched Tunisian carrier, Syphax Airlines, has signed up for our ENVISION software.

Syphax Airlines, based out of Sfax-Thyna International Airport, plans to commence flights this summer using a fleet of Boeing 737-800s. The airline will operate passenger flights to multiple destinations in Africa and Europe, with a view to continually grow their fleet until 2027 based on the needs of the market.

Syphax has signed up for seven of ENVISION’s modules including, Fleet Management for airworthiness, Base & Line MRO, Inventory Management, and Flight Operations.

We will begin the implementation project immediately to ensure the system is live in time for Syphax’s first flight.

Foued Chokri Ziadi, Chief Operating Officer at Syphax Airlines said:

“A key aspect for us in our search for a solution, was a multi-discipline approach. We wanted one system that could link our airworthiness, maintenance, and flight ops together, allowing for maximum efficiency and visibility across our operations.

“We also needed flexibility for our future growth, and we found ENVISION to be as capable managing a fleet of one as it is of one hundred.”

And Julian Stourton, CEO at Rusada commented:

“We are delighted to be playing a vital part in the next stage of Syphax’s history. The team they have in place possess a wealth of experience, so the fact that they chose ENVISION as their solution of choice is a great statement.

“We will ensure that this new beginning ends in a resounding success and look forward to a fruitful partnership in the years to come.”

What are assembly templates in aircraft maintenance?

A routine data quality check for Quality Assurance and Technical Records personnel includes confirmation that aircraft and their respective major and minor subassemblies are configured to ensure all necessary components, inspections, ADs and SBs are tracking correctly data-wise. Such confirmation of data quality is necessary given the nature of aviation maintenance tracking and related regulatory oversight, so is it surprising that many maintenance management solutions do not offer comprehensive assembly template control utilities.

RAAS assembly template control utilities allow our customers to define the structure of any assembly, be it a minor virtual assembly such as a battery with one or many associated limitations, or a complex major assembly such as an engine or landing gear. Assembly templates are set at the assembly type, and assemblies are nested, which by extension means assembly template management in RAAS is based on inheritance.

Harnessing the power of component position control

For example, imagine an aircraft with two engines and each engine having a fuel control unit, and each fuel control unit (FCU) having an MPD-based maintenance limitation. In this scenario, a configuration template would be created for the FCU PN to describe the fact that for it to track correctly it must have the MPD-based maintenance limitation implemented. The engine PN would also have a configuration template, which would describe the need for each engine to have one FCU installed. The aircraft would also have a configuration template, identifying that each aircraft must have two engines installed, and those engines should have position labels of, perhaps, LH and RH.

In the simple template scenario described above RAAS has enough information to impose rules and behaviours on users of the system, at various levels and in multiple departments. At a very high level, the templates allow a program manager or QA auditor to perform aircraft and assembly configuration verification analysis with a click of a button, with the ability to have the system keep a log of anomalies. At the Technical Records level, while updating aircraft technical records users are proactively notified if a given aircraft or assembly does not meet template standards, which includes control of normalized position labelling standards such as ensuring designated “LH” and “RH” are used as engine position labels rather than “#1” or “#2”.

Position labels are also subject to inheritance. In the aircraft-engine-FCU scenario mentioned above, we have a situation where the aircraft has LH and RH engines and each engine has a single FCU installed. Let’s imagine each FCU has a position label of “Only”. In this situation and due to inheritance, RAAS will set the position label of the FCUs based on their parent assembly locations, such that the FCU attached to the LH engine will be called “LH-Only” and the FCU attached to the RH engine will be called “RH-Only”.

Get started with assembly templates and component position control

The above describes the rudiments of RAAS assembly template and position control. A very powerful toolset that can be deployed to help manage the large quantities of data found at most fleet operators, and one that can be completely tailored to meet the unique requirements of each individual RAAS customer. Another example of how AIS delivers high-quality real-world advantages to our RAAS customers. If you are looking to replace your aircraft maintenance system, send us  

In September 2022, MRX Systems published a resumé of how their solution, Blue MRO, can save users’ valuable time.

Designed for MRO management, Blue MRO from the Blue EYE Suite enables users to digitalize the maintenance process from issuing quotations, assigning jobs to technicians, reporting repairs and findings until compiling all related paperwork into one exhaustive and automatically generated full work report. Let’s discover how timesaving it is.

Full Work Report Automatic Generation

Blue MRO enables users to generate a Full Work Report automatically at the end of each project. The data entry control features guarantee that no mandatory signature, part certificate, or related file is missed or incorrect at each stage of the maintenance, and all these are included in the final report. In one click, the result is an exhaustive, organized, and referenced full work report that will become a key selling feature.

eJobCard iPad App

With the eJobCard iPad App, communication between staff members has never been so simple. Improve operational communication chain efficiency to get a team connected and minimize human errors. With Blue MRO, instantly share the job descriptions and retrieve data from technicians. 

From the iPad app, technicians can:

• View all assigned jobs,

• Open, read, and badge on job cards,

• Report findings, illustrated with pictures,

• Update parts, tools, and resources used in seconds with QR codes,

• Sign off tasks and CRS directly on the device. 

Logistics & Inventory Management

With Blue STOK designed in addition to Blue MRO, take control over logistics thanks to data synchronized in real-time with operations and usage. All the features needed to streamline operations are there: set minimum stock holding and re-order level per item, assign preferred suppliers, create purchase orders, report inventory, receive deliveries and attach delivery notes and certificates, and much more.

Technicians’ Experience Record

Thanks to the badging system, users will no longer need to report the technicians’ experience. 

Blue MRO keeps track of the activity of each mechanic and gathers all the tasks they complete in work orders but also the other events they can work on.

It also allows users to control the efficiency by comparing the expected and the actual man-hours spent on a task. This way, the associated rates can easily be re-calculated, if necessary.

Dashboard module

Thanks to an intuitive dashboard, quickly get an overview of shelf life and calibration due dates, stock items status, material requests, loans alerts, critical stock quantities, and order alerts to always be one step ahead.

Poway, CA / Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES – September 01, 2022 – Enterprise aviation software provider Ramco Systems Corporation, USA announced that its U.S. based, wholly owned subsidiary, Ramco Systems Defense and Security Incorporated (RSDSI), has been selected by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), the world leader in unmanned aerial systems, to implement Ramco’s Aviation M&E MRO Suite V5.9 for GA-ASI’s SkyGuardian Global Support Solutions (SGSS) program.

Ramco’s Aviation Software will offer GA-ASI modules covering Maintenance Planning & Execution, Engineering & Fleet Airworthiness Management, Supply Chain Management, Technical Publication and Digital Task Cards, Safety, Quality & Compliance, and Employee Certifications & Qualification, thereby providing them with an aviation-specific ERP. With deep functional and technical capabilities, the solution will integrate GA-ASI’s operations globally, and enable the SGSS program to support its customers for parts management, aircraft fleet management, and supply chain, in support of their MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) operations.

In addition, with Ramco’s digital enablers like state-of-the-art mobile apps, dashboards, and an integrated customer portal, GA-ASI will be able to manage its global warehouses and depots and enable its customers to order parts and get real-time status updates on the progress of maintenance and repair tasks.

Sam Richardson, VP of GA-ASI Sustainment, said, “As SkyGuardian prepares to commence worldwide flight operations, GA-ASI has the unique opportunity to deploy Ramco’s out-of-the-box and industry-leading aviation sustainment solutions to help meet our end goal of having the right part, at the right location, at the right time, and at the right price point.”

Manoj Kumar Singh, President – Ramco Systems Corporation, USA and Chief Customer Officer – Aviation, Aerospace & Defense, Ramco Systems, said, “Securing the trust of a world leader in unmanned aerial systems is a landmark achievement for Ramco, and reflects the flexibility of Ramco software in catering to this unique segment, while leveraging the deep aviation functionality built over the last 25 years. By harnessing Ramco’s innovative features, we will work with GA-ASI to improve the operational efficiency of its SGSS program. We look forward to playing a pivotal role in the SGSS program and enabling GA-ASI to remain at the heart of many major global operations.”

Ramco Aviation, Aerospace & Defense (AAD) Software is trusted by 24,000+ users to manage 4,000+ aircraft globally. With 80+ Aviation organizations onboard, Ramco is the solution of choice for top heli-operators, leading defense companies, space launch vehicles, UAS/Drones, eVTOL and multiple MROs around the world. Available on cloud and mobile, Ramco AAD Software provides accessibility with ‘Anywhere Apps’, significantly reducing transaction time both during aircraft-on-ground (AOG) conditions and critical aircraft turnarounds. Ramco is changing the paradigm of enterprise software with Artificial Intelligence based solutions, powered by cool new features such as digital task cards, offline capability, chatbots, mail bots, HUBs and cognitive solutions.

Global aviation safety, quality, and risk management software provider ASQS has announced a partnership with German urban air mobility (UAM) company Volocopter.

As a veritable pioneer, Volocopter has developed a new form of transportation that efficiently meets people’s mobility requirements while taking into account environmental considerations and sustainability in its electric air taxi, the VoloCity.

Founded in 2011, the company made history by performing the first-ever crewed flight of an all-electric multicopter. Volocopter has since grown tremendously, and currently employs over 500 people at its headquarters in Bruchsal (Germany) and its Munich and Singapore offices.

In order to bring urban air mobility to life, Volocopter works with different infrastructure and air traffic management stakeholders to not only develop and enhance urban air taxis, but to create an entire urban air mobility ecosystem. This encompasses manufacturing, maintaining, and operating the aircraft, as well as providing a software platform (VoloIQ) to coordinate its eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft, and setting up and operating the takeoff and landing points referred to as VoloPorts.

As a future-oriented company, Volocopter offers a sustainable, emission-free, and modern alternative to existing transportation solutions for people and goods. For the latter, Volocopter has designed an uncrewed, fully electric utility drone – the VoloDrone. As an extension of the VoloCity urban air taxi services, the newest family member (the VoloConnect, a suburban eVTOL aircraft) is set to offer connections between major cities and their suburbs.

“Sharing the same values when it comes to combining innovation and operational safety, we are very proud to be working with such an innovative and visionary company whose VoloCity air taxi – among other innovations – is the first of its kind to have been designed and developed to the most stringent aviation safety standards. Volocopter has implemented IQSMS in all aspects of its operations, from engineering and manufacturing to operations and maintenance, and will further provide IQSMS to all future franchisees, as part of Volocopter’s IT infrastructure standard package,” said Günther Schindl, CEO of ASQS, speaking about the partnership.

For more information about Volocopter, visit: https://www.volocopter.com/