News
Archive
December
2007
Aero
Tec releases "AeroTrip".. the latest in flight operations control
software.
Aero
Tec is pleased to announce the release of AeroTrip.
AeroTrip is designed with the latest technology to provide the on demand
charter operator with a comprehensive software suite. It includes, crew
duty planning, crew training, a trip planning module including customer
data, itinerary, charter quoting, crew scheduling, FBO's, passenger
management, trip overview, and invoicing.
April 2007
AeroWeb
Version 2.1.103 Released
New reports and features
are now included with AeroWeb 2.1.103.
July 2005
AeroWeb
Version 2.1.95 Released
AeroWeb
V2.1.95 is now available and includes Canadian Aviation Regulation IFR
flight time and approach tracking. The IFR crew summary provides a
full list of crewmembers and the amount of IFR flight time/approaches
the expiry date the number of approaches or flight time that took place
six months prior.
A new airport search function is
also now available. Airports can be located by entering the airport name
or portion of a name in the search utility.
April 2005
AeroTrack Crew Tracking Software
Aero
Tec is pleased to announce the release of a new crew tracking software product called
"AeroTrack"
AeroTrack
is a software product designed to track the flight time, duty time and
currency of your crewmembers. AeroTrack provides data entry warnings as well as regulatory reports in
either the Federal Aviation Regulation or Canadian Aviation
Regulation formats.
Click
here for more information..
March 2005
Crewmember
aircraft type and night currency tracking.
AeroWeb
now tracks crewmember aircraft type and night currency requirements.
CAR summaries
are available detailing the number of takeoff and landings that the
crewmember has been credited with in the previous 90 days for type or 6
months in the case of night currency. If a crewmember has
completed the required number of takeoff and landings for a given
period, the summary produces a date indicating when the crewmembers
currency will expire.
December 2004
Revised Crewmember
information
Additional
fields have been added to the crewmember database to provide more
comprehensive crew information.
FAR 121.500
Supplementary
AeroWeb now
includes crewmember compliance checking of the FAR 121.500 Supplementary
regulations. The system provides violation warns on both domestic
and international rules for two crewmember operations.
Optional
crew tracking on block times
An option has
been added to AeroWeb to track crew flight time on the actual out and in
times or block times. A check box has been added to the system
settings to choose these option.
October 2004
Screen
Security
AeroWeb version
2.1.72 is now available and includes company defined screen security
levels. Security levels can be assigned to each user of the system from
1 through 10. The system will only allow access to the modules of those
users who have been assigned the security level of each module or lower.
Streamlined flight
closing procedure
In an effort to
streamline the flight closing procedure the three step method of closing
flights has been changed to one simple closing form. The addition of
option buttons for those users who wish to enter your tach / hobbs times
or duty designators are still available.
September 2004
Crew Board - Blanket
Duty Periods and Rest
Aero Tec has released the latest version
of AeroWeb featuring new crew board options that streamline the
application of crewmember duty time and rests. The "Blanket Duty
and Rest" allows the scheduler to assign the duty periods and rests
to one or all of the crewmembers on the crew board with just a couple of
clicks!
August 2004
Sunrise /
Sunset Calculator
AeroWeb
now features a sunrise/sunset calculator to help plan your daylight
operations. Enter a worldwide airport in either 4 or 3 letter
identifier then select a date. Sunrise and sunset times are displayed
in both universal coordinated time (GMT) and local time.
May 2004
Automated
Duty Time Tracking
An option has been added to automatically update
crewmembers duty periods based on the estimated departure and arrival
times or the actual departure and arrival times entered on the
operations board.
Flight
Templates
A
new method of adding flights has been added to the operations
board called “Flight Templates”.
The flight templates feature allows you to build a flight or
pairing of flight legs for quick application of re-occurring flights
to the operations board.
April 2004
Crew
Training Module
AeroWeb now
has a comprehensive crew training
module. Courses are easily applied and tracked on a
spreadsheet format. Training items entered still display warnings
on the crew board as well provide you with 30, 60, 90 day warning
reports. This module replaces the training item section on the
crewmember data form.
March
2004 Time
Away from Base (TAFB) Calculations AeroWeb
now tracks your crewmember's time away from home base for
calculation of crew wages or per diems. The system tracks both domestic
and international hours and also takes into account crew that are
transiting several times through their home base during a single duty
period. Deadheading crew transiting away from base are also
accounted for with the addition of positioning strips on the crew board.
Canadian
Aviation Regulations Flight Time and Duty/Rest Summaries
AeroWeb has
two new reports designed for the tracking of Canadian Aviation
Regulation crewmember flight time and duty and rest time. The CARS
Flight Time report details the crewmember's flights total flight
hours for past 24, 7, 30, 42, 90, 180, 365 days. The CARS Duty/Rest report
details the crewmember's name, date, description, start and end times
and totals.
Visit
our Crew
Scheduling page
for more information.
January
2004
Extended CARS compliance checking Aero
Tec has expanded crewmember regulation violation checking to include the Canadian Aviation Regulation part "720 Standards" for those
operators who have "ops spec" approval. Visit
our Crew Scheduling
page for more information. New
quotation module features New
quotation module features include a customer dropdown selector
for adding and retrieving quotes. The flight itinerary also
features the ability to enter special leg rates and displays flight leg totals. Visit
our Quotations
page for more information. New
schedule application features AeroWeb's
schedule application feature now lets you add regularly scheduled flights
from a day up to a month at a time in one step. Visit
our Flight
Scheduling page
for more information. New
Crew Board features New
crew board enhancements include improvements in system performance, a
quicker method of entering flight duty times, and a new crewmember
assignment flight display feature. Visit
our Crew Scheduling
page for more information. New
flight features In
addition to the leg comments. The flight form now features trip or
flight comments and also lets you assign a customer to your flights for
tracking.
New
summaries and reports AeroWeb
has several new summaries and reports including new trip reports, flight
following, quotation and training reports.
November 2003
Passenger management
module. AeroWeb
now features a passenger module for managing, booking and tracking your
passengers.
Some of
the features include.
-
Track your passenger information including passport, medical
information and preferences.
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Search
utility for searching passengers by name, phone number, passport or company.
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Flight booking
lets you choose the passenger then search
available flights on a given city pair including stopovers.
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System
warnings for passport
expiry and double bookings.
-
Graphical
seating chart displays booked seats and seats available.
-
System
provides unique confirmation numbers.
-
Trip
reports and manifests.
Visit
our Passenger
Management and Booking
page for more information.
Crew
Board view adjustment.
The
crew board now features an adjustable view from one to seven days
allowing greater ease and flexibility in the planning of your
crewmembers.
Crew
Board multiple
flight assignment.
A
new feature has been added to the crew board to enable the assignment
of a crewmember to multiple flights within a date range.
August 2003
Quick
add and edit flight strips The
operations board now features graphical quick add and edit flight strip
options. The new add flight strip feature lets you to choose an aircraft, enter
the flight number, origin, destination and ETD. The system
automatically extrapolates the ETA and places the flight strip on the
operations and crew board.
June
2003
Estimated
time extrapolation
The
quote module and add flight function now feature
estimated flight time
extrapolation. The system calculates a trip distance, then uses average aircraft speeds to calculate the
enroute time. AeroWeb stores a history of the actual
flight times from
previous trips, and averages the actual times to provide you with
an accurate estimate for your future operations.
Universal
to local time conversion
If
you prefer to enter your itineraries in local time, the quote module
features local to UTC time conversion. You can enter your schedules in either local or
universal coordinated time. The system converts the times and also accounts for daylight
savings time. Local times are displayed on your printed quote for
client convenience.
Send
your itinerary from the quote module to the ops board
When your quote
is complete, you can send the itinerary to the operations board. AeroWeb
will only allow you to select from a list of available
aircraft that do not
conflict with other flight operations.
Operations
Board Pause Polling
The operations board now features a pause
polling button. This allows you to temporarily stop the operations
board from resetting to present time, which is a particularly
useful if you are working with a flight from a previous date.
Customer
Database
In
association with the quotation module the customer database allows
you to store your customer information and preferences. This
information is used for your creating and printing charter quotes
and reports.
March
2003
Hobbs
tracking option added.
AeroWeb
now features the option to track the airframe time using either Hobbs
entries or the actual off and on times. Simply enter Hobbs meter out and in
readings as the flight is being closed.
Latest
AeroWeb version includes a Quotation Module!
Aero
Tec is pleased to announce that the latest version release of AeroWeb
will feature an integrated charter quoting module. The quotation module
provides a consistent and accurate method of scheduling and costing your charter flights.
Some
of the features of the quotation module include:
-
A
customer database for customer specifics and preferences.
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Quotations
are logged by customer for easy tracking, retrieval
and revision.
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Quotation
costing based on distance or time.
-
System
extrapolates your estimated time of arrival based on an estimated
time of departure or vice-versa.
-
Aircraft
selector allows you to perform quick cost comparisons between
different aircraft types.
-
You
set the tax rate and have the option to decide which items are taxed
and which items are not.
-
System
allows you to
enter your own additional billing detail.
-
Settings
allow you to enter your own introduction and disclaimer messages on
your quotation.
October
2002
FAR
121 Flag and CAR 700 Crew Scheduling
Aero Tec Software is pleased to
announce the latest release of AeroWeb Version 2.0 featuring FAR
121.481 (Flag) and CAR 700 crew
scheduling duty limitation checking on subparts 702, 703, 704, and
705. Canadian operators now have proven software available that recognizes the fundamental differences
between the crew duty limitations of the Federal Aviation Regulations
and the Canadian Aviation Regulations.
The latest release of
AeroWeb features a crew scheduling module that supports FAR parts
135/121 and CARs 700 crew compliance checking.
October
2002
Schedule
Input module upgrade
A new modification has
also been made to the aircraft scheduling Input module. The
change was made to improve the performance and functionality of this
module. Refer to the latest release of the "AeroWeb Access Manual" for more
information.
September
2002
Aero
Tec Releases AeroWeb V2.0 Crew scheduling module featuring FAR part
135 crew compliance checking!
Aero Tec
Software is pleased to announce its latest system version 2.0 that
includes FAR 135 scheduled, non-scheduled and FAR 121 domestic crew
schedule checking checking as part of the new "Crew Board
module. This latest application checks the regulations and
advises which duty limitation has been exceeded and provides a
solution. The system also includes the stat bar which provides a
running accumulation of your crewmembers hours for the past calendar
year, quarter, month, 7 days, 24 hours and last rest.
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